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Quotations of the Day: April 2007
April 30, 2007
The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart / That got the Captain finally on his back / And took the red red vitals of his heart / And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack. —John Crowe Ransom
April 29, 2007
O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! —Madame Roland
April 28, 2007
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. —Harper Lee
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. —William Blake
April 25, 2007
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. —Charles Baudelaire
April 24, 2007
The poem … is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life. —Robert Penn Warren
April 23, 2007
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Max Planck
April 22, 2007
There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. —Immanuel Kant
April 21, 2007
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. —Marcus Aurelius
April 20, 2007
Every American with a penny in his pocket carries a minute example of Daniel Chester French’s work. —Heather Smith MacIsaac
April 19, 2007
Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. —Lord Byron
April 18, 2007
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. —Fidel Castro
April 17, 2007
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. —Thornton Wilder
April 16, 2007
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. —Anatole France
April 15, 2007
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ —Luke 18:13
April 14, 2007
I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value. —Christopher Fry
April 13, 2007
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory. —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
April 12, 2007
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: “There is no indispensable man.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
April 11, 2007
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. —Dean Acheson
April 10, 2007
When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. —Samuel Johnson
April 9, 2007
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. —Jean Cocteau
April 8, 2007
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River. —Trygve Lie
April 7, 2007
O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in everything. —William Wordsworth
April 6, 2007
O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. —William Shakespeare
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. —Thomas Szasz
April 3, 2007
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. —Washington Irving
April 2, 2007
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. —Isadora Duncan
April 1, 2007
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. —Alfred Hitchcock
