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Quotations of the Day: May 2005
May 31, 2005
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. —Walt Whitman
May 30, 2005
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. —Theodore Roosevelt
May 29, 2005
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity—and the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. —John F. Kennedy
May 28, 2005
One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of two beer glasses. —Anonymous
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don’t have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar. —Margaret Anderson
May 25, 2005
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. —Harlow H. Curtice
May 22, 2005
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
May 21, 2005
In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; / Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; / Be not the first by whom the New are try’d, / Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside. —Alexander Pope
May 20, 2005
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. —John Stuart Mill
May 19, 2005
It’s a funny thing about men, you know. They all start life being boys. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these senators were boys once. —Sidney Buchman
May 18, 2005
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. —Bertrand Russell
May 17, 2005
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. —Richard M. Nixon
May 16, 2005
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public’s pocket are the order of the day—indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue—the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours. —Studs Terkel
May 15, 2005
What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can. —Earl Felton
May 14, 2005
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. —Edward Dahlberg
May 13, 2005
It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and contemporary civilization. —Pius IX
May 12, 2005
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this—”devoted and obedient.” This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman. —Florence Nightingale
May 11, 2005
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. —Salvador Dalí
May 10, 2005
Man can certainly flee from God … but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. —Karl Barth
May 9, 2005
I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. —John Brown
May 8, 2005
You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. It’s in Tombstone, Ariz., and this epitaph says, “Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.” I think that is the greatest epitaph a man could have. —Harry S. Truman
May 7, 2005
The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. —David Hume
May 6, 2005
I pass the test that says a man who isn’t a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head. —William Casey
May 5, 2005
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! —Søren Kierkegaard
May 4, 2005
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. —Horace Mann
May 3, 2005
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. —Niccolò Machiavelli
May 2, 2005
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. —Clement Attlee
May 1, 2005
No matter what your fight, don’t be ladylike! God Almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. —Mother Jones
