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Quotations of the Day: October 2007
October 31, 2007
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him. —Garrett Fort
October 30, 2007
Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied, / Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention, / Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors. —Ezra Pound
October 29, 2007
We must take our friends as they are. —James Boswell
October 28, 2007
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. —Evelyn Waugh
October 27, 2007
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. —Theodore Roosevelt
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. —Aldous Huxley
October 24, 2007
Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof. —Sarah Josepha Hale
October 23, 2007
To-morrow it seem / Like the empty words of a dream / Remembered on waking. —Robert Bridges
October 22, 2007
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. —Eugène Ionesco
October 21, 2007
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 20, 2007
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. —James 1:19
October 19, 2007
I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. —John le Carré
October 18, 2007
My rifle always remains the same. It’s the pigeons who change. —Thierry Le Luron
October 17, 2007
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. —Arthur Miller
October 16, 2007
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. —Eugene O’Neill
October 15, 2007
We are poor passing facts, / warned by that to give / each figure in the photograph / his living name. —Robert Lowell
October 14, 2007
One day with life and heart / Is more than time enough to find a world. —James Russell Lowell
October 13, 2007
The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg. —Margaret Thatcher
October 12, 2007
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them—the desire to do right—is precisely the same. —Robert E. Lee
October 11, 2007
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace. —Eleanor Roosevelt
October 10, 2007
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. —Orson Welles
October 9, 2007
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. —John Lennon
October 8, 2007
Give me to die unwitting of the day, / And stricken in Life’s brave heat, with senses clear! —Edmund Clarence Stedman
We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. —T.S. Eliot
October 5, 2007
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. —Charlie Chaplin
October 4, 2007
I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. —Damon Runyon
October 3, 2007
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. —Gore Vidal
