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| Quotations of the Day: September 2000 |
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September 30, 2000
A boy’s will is the wind’s will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
September 29, 2000
The best readers come to fiction to be free of … all that isn’t fiction.
—Philip Roth
September 28, 2000
Gather leaves and grasses, / Love, to-day; / For the Autumn passes / Soon away. / Chilling winds are blowing. / It will soon be snowing.
—John Henry Boner
September 27, 2000
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
—William Faulkner
September 26, 2000
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon…. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
September 25, 2000
Fall on me like a silent dew, / Or like those maiden showers / Which, by the peep of day, do strew / A baptism o’er the flowers.
—Robert Herrick
September 24, 2000
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
—Bette Davis
September 23, 2000
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
September 22, 2000
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
—William Pitt
September 21, 2000
Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.
—Dianne Feinstein
September 20, 2000
Simon and Schuster runs a sales contest every year. The winners get to keep their jobs.
—Jack O’Leary
September 19, 2000
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life.
—Norman Cousins
September 18, 2000
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, / And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
—Oliver Goldsmith
September 17, 2000
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same…. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
—Martha Graham
September 16, 2000
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
—Mother Teresa
September 15, 2000
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
—Samuel Smiles
September 14, 2000
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves / For a bright manhood, there is no such word / As “fail.”
—Edward Bulwer Lytton
September 13, 2000
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
September 12, 2000
The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.
—Richard Edwards
September 11, 2000
Were I so tall to reach the pole, / Or grasp the ocean with my span, / I must be measured by my soul: / The mind ’s the standard of the man.
—Isaac Watts
September 10, 2000
The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.
—John Gross
September 9, 2000
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
—Robert Graves
September 8, 2000
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
—Yousuf Karsh
September 7, 2000
We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
—Rutherford D. Rogers
September 6, 2000
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
—Benjamin Franklin
September 5, 2000
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
—Book of Common Prayer
September 4, 2000
The day when the air in America’s suburbs smells the same from sea to shining sea, flavored by a billion backyard barbecues.
—New York Times
September 3, 2000
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
—George Herbert
September 2, 2000
Water, water, everywhere / Atlantic and Pacific / But New York City’s got them beat / Our aqua is terrific!
—Edward Koch
September 1, 2000
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
—Samuel Johnson
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