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Quotations of the Day: May 2006
May 31, 2006
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. —Walt Whitman
May 30, 2006
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril. —Joan of Arc
May 29, 2006
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap. —Bob Hope
May 28, 2006
I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. —William Pitt, the Elder
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them. —Robert Morley
May 25, 2006
Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside out or outside in. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 24, 2006
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. —C.E.M. Joad
May 23, 2006
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance. —Clara Barton
May 22, 2006
The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics. —Aneurin Bevan
May 21, 2006
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. —José Bergamín
May 20, 2006
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. —Honoré de Balzac
May 19, 2006
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. —Lorraine Hansberry
May 18, 2006
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one…. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. —John Paul II
May 17, 2006
To separate [children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. —Earl Warren
May 16, 2006
There was a time we was on the land. There was a boundary to us then. Old folks died off and little fellers come. We was always one thing. We was the family, kinda whole and clear. But now we ain’t clear no more.... They ain’t no family now. —Nunnally Johnson
May 15, 2006
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them. —C. Wright Mills
May 14, 2006
The conduct of God who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to attempt to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror. —Blaise Pascal
A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,— / Memorial from the Soul’s eternity / To one dead deathless hour. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti
May 11, 2006
The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. —Calvin Coolidge
May 10, 2006
Hollywood’s like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It’ll never come back. It’ll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. —David O. Selznick
May 9, 2006
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. —José Ortega y Gasset
May 8, 2006
Muhammad is the Messenger of God, / and those who are with him are hard / against the unbelievers, merciful / one to another. —Qur’an
May 7, 2006
We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. —Archibald MacLeish
May 6, 2006
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. —Sigmund Freud
May 5, 2006
There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. —Christopher Morley
May 4, 2006
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. —Thomas Henry Huxley
May 3, 2006
When one’s not writing poems — and I’m not at the moment — you wonder how you ever did it. It’s like another country you can’t reach. —May Sarton
May 2, 2006
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. —Stanley Kubrick
May 1, 2006
My voice is still for war. / Gods! can a Roman senate long debate / Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? —Joseph Addison
