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Quotations of the Day: February 2005
February 28, 2005
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. —Montaigne
February 27, 2005
Trust no future, howe’er pleasant! / Let the dead Past bury its dead! / Act, act in the living present! / Heart within, and God o’erhead! —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
February 26, 2005
What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country? —Daniel Webster
February 25, 2005
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. —Hannah More
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War. —W.E.B. Du Bois
February 22, 2005
No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. —George Washington
February 21, 2005
what evil is: not as we thought / Deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith, / Our dishonest mood of denial, / The concupiscence of the oppressor. —W.H. Auden
February 20, 2005
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. —Ansel Adams
February 19, 2005
There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. —Carson McCullers
February 18, 2005
It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass. —Hugh McKean
February 17, 2005
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile…. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile. —Giordano Bruno
February 16, 2005
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. —Henry Adams
February 15, 2005
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. —Jeremy Bentham
February 14, 2005
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. —Thomas Robert Malthus
February 13, 2005
Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. —Georges Simenon
February 12, 2005
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. —Charles Darwin
February 11, 2005
This is the patent age of new inventions / For killing bodies, and for saving souls, / All propagated with the best intentions. —Lord Byron
February 10, 2005
Our evenings are farewells / Our parties are testaments / So that the secret stream of suffering / May warm the cold of life. —Boris Pasternak
February 9, 2005
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. —Brendan Behan
February 8, 2005
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. —Anonymous
February 7, 2005
Here’s the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept. —Charles Dickens
February 6, 2005
We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. —Ronald Reagan
February 5, 2005
Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit. —Hank Aaron
February 4, 2005
Why, what’s the matter, / That you have such a February face, / So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? —William Shakespeare
February 3, 2005
When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three. —Gertrude Stein
February 2, 2005
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. —Havelock Ellis
February 1, 2005
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. —Boris Yeltsin
