Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Quotes of the Day

Unknown, Source

Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

Francis, Brendan


The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Franklin, Benjamin

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Marden, Orison Swett


Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Eliot, George


Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Johnson, Samuel


Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Unknown, Source

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.


Richter, Jean Paul

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Byron, Lord

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Rostand, Jean

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Picasso, Pablo


Youth has no age.

Socrates

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Saroyan, William

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

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