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Quotations of the Day: June 2006
June 30, 2006
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. —Yasir Arafat
June 29, 2006
For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience? —1 Corinthians 10:29
June 28, 2006
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. —Eric Ambler
June 27, 2006
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty, in a feather-bed. —Thomas Jefferson
June 26, 2006
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our qualities. —Bernard Berenson
June 25, 2006
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. —John Ruskin
June 24, 2006
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. —George Orwell
June 23, 2006
We are recorders and reporters of the facts—not judges of the behavior we describe. —Alfred C. Kinsey
June 22, 2006
Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit. —Dianne Feinstein
June 21, 2006
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. —Winston Churchill
“The Love that dare not speak its name” in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. —Oscar Wilde
June 18, 2006
Had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal / I serv’d my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies. —William Shakespeare
June 17, 2006
It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. —John Hersey
June 16, 2006
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. —English proverb
June 15, 2006
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. —Mario Cuomo
June 14, 2006
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. —Donald Trump
June 13, 2006
When [poetry] aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. —Mark Van Doren
June 12, 2006
Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there’s not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?… Oh, why are people so crazy? —Anne Frank
June 11, 2006
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. —William Styron
June 10, 2006
New York is the greatest city in the world for lunch … That’s the gregarious time. And when that first martini hits the liver like a silver bullet, there is a sigh of contentment that can be heard in Dubuque. —William Emerson, Jr.
June 9, 2006
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. —Joseph de Maistre
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. —Paul Gauguin
June 6, 2006
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. —Thomas H. Huxley
June 5, 2006
Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can.… He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. —Adam Smith
June 4, 2006
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. —George III
June 3, 2006
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. —Josephine Baker
June 2, 2006
Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. —Groucho Marx
June 1, 2006
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. —Karl von Clausewitz
