Monday, November 14. 2005
"A good career move." Gore Vidal on Truman Capote's death
Friday, November 11. 2005
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend - if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second - if there is one." Winston Churchill, in reply
Tuesday, November 8. 2005
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. Charles, Count Talleyrand (Need we say more about the French?)
Friday, November 4. 2005
The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark... Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Michelangelo
Wednesday, November 2. 2005
Times are hard. Children are disobedient, and everyone is writing a blog. Cicero (updated)
Tuesday, November 1. 2005
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher
Monday, October 31. 2005
Two Wolves One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." |
Friday, October 28. 2005
Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. Gen. Robert E. Lee
Wednesday, October 26. 2005
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32)
Tuesday, October 25. 2005
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath." From King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)
Monday, October 24. 2005
There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. … Men will more and more realize that there is no meaning in democracy if there is no meaning in anything; and that there is no meaning in anything if the universe has not a center of significance and an authority that is the author of our rights. G. K. Chesterton
Friday, October 21. 2005
The definition of "neurotic" behavior is to keep doing the same thing, while each time expecting a different result. Anon.
Wednesday, October 19. 2005
Not very quotable, but a powerful and provocative statement from Teddy Roosevelt: "Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
Tuesday, October 18. 2005
When you think you alone are sane, and that every one else is crazy...think again. When you think you alone are smart, and everyone else is stupid... think again. When you think you alone are saved, and everyone else a sinner... think again. Anon.
Monday, October 17. 2005
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying. Woody Allen (Thanks, Dr. Bob)
Friday, October 14. 2005
What works in practice rarely works in theory. Bird Dog
Thursday, October 13. 2005
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. From Hamlet (II, ii, 115-117)
Wednesday, October 12. 2005
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein
Tuesday, October 11. 2005
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is. Chuck Reid
Monday, October 10. 2005
Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the cheek to govern; and (according to Christian ethics) the precise people who ought to govern are the people who have not the cheek to do it. G.K. Chesterton
Friday, October 7. 2005
It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee
Wednesday, October 5. 2005
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. G.K. Chesterton
Tuesday, October 4. 2005
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, October 3. 2005
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein
Friday, September 30. 2005
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
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