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Quotations of the Day: September 2002
September 30, 2002
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. —Saint Jerome
September 29, 2002
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. —Franz Kafka
September 28, 2002
A mighty pain to love it is, / And ’t is a pain that pain to miss; / But of all pains, the greatest pain / It is to love, but love in vain. —Abraham Cowley
September 27, 2002
There is a harmony / In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, / Which through the summer is not heard or seen, / As if it could not be, as if it had not been! —Percy Bysshe Shelley
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. —William Faulkner
September 24, 2002
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. —Plato
September 23, 2002
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained. —Victoria Woodhull
September 22, 2002
And so while dreams are the individual man’s play with reality, the sculptor’s art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. —Friedrich Nietzsche
September 21, 2002
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, / Bearing the wanton burden of the prime / Like widowed wombs after their lords’ decease. —William Shakespeare
September 20, 2002
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. —Ecclesiastes 9:10
September 19, 2002
’Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. —George Washington
September 18, 2002
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. —Samuel Johnson
September 17, 2002
Our Constitution was not a perfect instrument, it is not perfect yet; but it provided a firm base upon which all manner of men of all races, colors and creeds could build our solid structure of democracy. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
September 16, 2002
Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. —Jean Arp
September 15, 2002
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity. —William Howard Taft
September 14, 2002
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. —G.K. Chesterton
September 13, 2002
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness. —John F. Kennedy
September 12, 2002
Remorse—Regret that one waited so long to do it. —H.L. Mencken
September 11, 2002
From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. —Abraham Lincoln
September 10, 2002
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. —John F. Kennedy
September 9, 2002
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. —Leo Tolstoy
September 8, 2002
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room! —Stanley Kubrick
September 7, 2002
I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. —Grandma Moses
September 6, 2002
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done. —Pierre Bayle
September 5, 2002
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. —Mother Teresa
September 4, 2002
School days, school days; dear old golden rule days. / Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick. —Will D. Cobb
Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen
September 1, 2002
I came here for one thing only, to try to help national Ireland—and if there is no such thing in existence then the sooner I pay for my illusions the better. —Sir Roger Casement
