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Quotations of the Day: August 2005
August 31, 2005
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone / Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, / And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere. —Petrarch
August 30, 2005
Your country is calling you. Our people are calling us…. They are asking relief. —Huey P. Long
August 29, 2005
The great question which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it. —John Locke
August 28, 2005
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. —J.W. von Goethe
August 27, 2005
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. —Georg W.F. Hegel
August 26, 2005
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, “All those men have their price.” —Robert Walpole
August 25, 2005
Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. —Henry David Thoreau
August 24, 2005
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. —Jorge Luis Borges
August 23, 2005
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, / The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? / All, all, are sleeping on the hill. —Edgar Lee Masters
August 22, 2005
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. —Ray Bradbury
I now leave Charleston, the seat of Satan, dissipation, and folly. —Francis Asbury
August 19, 2005
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave / When they think that their children are naive. —Ogden Nash
August 18, 2005
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. —Neville Chamberlain
August 17, 2005
I am now here in Congress … I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. —Davy Crockett
August 16, 2005
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer’s interest, of the historian’s comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion. —Josiah Royce
August 15, 2005
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. —Napoleon I
August 14, 2005
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. —Winston Churchill
August 13, 2005
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
August 12, 2005
It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart. —Lillie Devereux Blake
August 11, 2005
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth / With difficulty persist here and there on earth. —Hugh MacDiarmid
August 10, 2005
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. —Jacques Lipchitz
August 9, 2005
Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. —Izaak Walton
August 8, 2005
The concept of neutrality can lead to … a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. —Arthur Goldberg
August 7, 2005
The Soul unto itself / Is an imperial friend— / Or the most agonizing Spy— / An Enemy—could send— —Emily Dickinson
August 6, 2005
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. —Franz Grillparzer
August 5, 2005
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. —D.H. Lawrence
August 4, 2005
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. —Percy Bysshe Shelley
August 3, 2005
The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, / Desire illimitable, and still content, / And all dear names men use, to cheat despair. —Rupert Brooke
August 2, 2005
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive. —James Baldwin
August 1, 2005
If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives’ darkling hint. —Herman Melville
