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Quotations of the Day: March 2004
March 31, 2004
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize. —Albert Gore, Jr.
March 30, 2004
Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness…. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. —Sean O’Casey
March 29, 2004
Spring is here. / Why doesn’t my heart go dancing? —Lorenz Hart
March 28, 2004
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize, or accept another’s dogmatism. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 27, 2004
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. —Lyndon B. Johnson
March 26, 2004
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in. —Robert Frost
March 25, 2004
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings! —William Shakespeare
March 24, 2004
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. —Mario Puzo
March 23, 2004
Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve. —Erich Fromm
March 22, 2004
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? —Marcel Marceau
March 21, 2004
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. —Alice James
March 20, 2004
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines…. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! —Henrik Ibsen
March 19, 2004
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one’s conscience. —William Jennings Bryan
March 18, 2004
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. —John C. Calhoun
March 17, 2004
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous. —Edna O’Brien
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. —Karl Marx
March 13, 2004
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means. —Clarence Darrow
March 12, 2004
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. —Pablo Picasso
March 11, 2004
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. —Antonin Scalia
March 10, 2004
But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world. —Clare Boothe Luce
March 9, 2004
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. —Gertrude Stein
March 4, 2004
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. —Mason Cooley
March 3, 2004
Sometimes, at night, it was almost as if I could hear the assurance that God the Father gave to another soldier, named Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.” —Matthew B. Ridgway
March 2, 2004
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. —Dr. Seuss
March 1, 2004
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. —Lytton Strachey
