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Jangan menolak kebaikan seseorang, karena mungkin saja itu hal baik terakhir yang dilakukannya. -@arievrahman<br />
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Ketika berselisih dengan seseorang, mengalahlah. Karena solusi akan diperoleh jika salah satu pihak mau mengalah dan mendengarkan.<br />
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Hebat itu bukan hanya pengakuan orang dan media masa, hebat itu perlu juga pengakuan dari keluargamu. -@jamilazzaini<br />
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Kejujuran mungkin menyakitkan, tp tdk mematikan. Kebohongan mungkin menyenangkan, tp tdk menyembuhkan. -@AmandaAdriani<br />
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Seseorang bahagia bukan karena ia memiliki banyak hal, tetapi karena ia tidak membandingkan miliknya dengan milik orang lain.<br />
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Jangan pernah ragu bahwa Tuhan selalu bersamamu. Penderitaan hanya sementara. Percayalah, semuanya akan indah pada waktunya.<br />
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Musuh Utama manusia adalah dirinya sendiri. Kegagalan terutama manusia adalah kesombongan.<br />
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Doaku pagi ini: Tuhan, berkati dan lindungilah segala aktivitasku hari ini. Semoga yang kulakukan selalu mendapat berkah dariMu.<br />
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Cintai dan sayangi ibumu, karena meski terkadang kamu tak menyukai keputusannya, pada akhirnya hanya dia yg selalu ada untukmu.<br />
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Cinta bukan sesuatu yg datang dengan mudah, namun jika kamu mau memperjuangkannya, kamu seseorang yg pantas mendapatkannya. -@AidiMs<br />
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Kebohongan terbesar wanita: "Tidak apa-apa", "Aku baik-baik saja" & "Tinggalkan aku sendiri". -@AmandaAdriani<br />
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Jangan sampai kebahagiaanmu bergantung pd orang lain. Kebahagiaan sebaiknya dari dalam dirimu sendiri. -@WilzKanadi<br />
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Sahabat yang baik tidak akan mencelakai, tetapi sahabat yang baik akan menasehati, melindungi, dan tulus mengasihi.<br />
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Ketika masalah datang menghampiri, itu artinya Tuhan menyayangi, bukan membenci. Tuhan hanya menguji keimanan dan kesabaran.<br />
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Cinta tak hanya berawal dari tatapan mata. Cinta hadir dari tulusnya hati ketika diri tak mampu berpikir jernih. Percaya Hati. ?<br />
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Jika seseorang memutuskan untuk pergi dari hidupmu, biarkan dia pergi. Kamu mungkin merindukannya, tapi kamu pasti bisa hidup tanpanya.<br />
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Jika seseorang berbohong akan hal kecil, maka dia pasti akan berbohong untuk hal yang lebih besar.<br />
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Berbicara tentang hubungan masa lalu bukan berarti masih terjebak didalamnya. Terkadang itu diingat agar tak mengulangi kesalahan lagi.<br />
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Sudahkah anda #tersenyum hari ini? Jangan biarkan masalah membuatmu lupa bahwa sebuah senyuman mampu meringankannya.<br />
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Kesulitan-kesulitan yang kamu alami adalah pelajaran yang paling kamu butuhkan!<br />
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Dalam senang, jangan lupa berterima kasih pd Tuhan. Dalam susah, jangan lupa tetap bersyukur padaNya. -@christanatasha<br />
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Bersiap untuk mendengar jawaban dari setiap pertanyaan. Karena terkadang jawaban yang didengar bukanlah yang diharapkan.<br />
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Jika sesuatu terasa indah pd awalnya, itu disebut janji. Jika hal itu indah hingga akhirnya, itu disebut bukti. -@AmandaAdriani<br />
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Tak perlu bersusah payah untuk membalas dendam, cukup maafkan setiap kesalahan. Karena memaafkan adalah pembalasan yang terbaik.<br />
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Ketika kau yakin, segera laksanakan! karena "Keraguan akan datang ketika keyakinan tidak sesegera mungkin dilaksanakan".<br />
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Keyakinan dan kesungguhan dalam berupaya adalah sebuah gerbang untuk menapaki tangga keberhasilan.<br />
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Doaku hari ini: Tuhan, dekatkan aku dengan orang-orang baik, agar aku bisa mengikuti jejak kebaikan mereka.<br />
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Semua orang punya kelebihan pun kekurangan, tapi jika kamu tak bisa menghargai kekuranganmu, kamu tak menghargai dirimu sendiri.<br />
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Kadang meski sangat merindukan senyum seseorang, kamu terus menyakinkan dirimu, bahwa senyummu adalah hal yg harus diutamakan.<br />
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Jangan paksakan diri tuk jatuh cinta. Berikan hatimu waktu tuk mempelajarinya. #Cupids juga butuh waktu tuk mencari hati yg pantas bagimu.<br />
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Aku mungkin mudah merasakan, tapi tidak mudah melepaskan. Aku mungkin mudah memaafkan, tapi tidak mudah melupakan. -@AmandaAdriani<br />
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Jangan harapkan cinta untuk SELALU berada dalam keadaan terbaiknya, karena ada suka dan duka di dalamnya. Belajarlah menghargai keberadaannya.<br />
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Belajarlah untuk mengagumi PELANGI setelah kamu mengeluh derasnya HUJAN. Seperti halnya mencintai lagi meski hatimu pernah terluka.<br />
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Tak perlu yg sempurna tuk dicinta, yg kamu butuh hanya yg nyata, perlakukanmu dgn baik, dan bahagia ketika bersamamu lebih dr apapun jg.<br />
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Kadang masalah adalah cara terbaik tuk menyadari siapa sahabat terbaikmu dan siapa yang hanya hadir ketika dia membutuhkan sesuatu darimu.<br />
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Salah satu hal terbaik tentang sahabat: mereka tahu semua hal kecil tentangmu, bukan karena kamu terus mengingatkannya, tapi karena mereka PEDULI<br />
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Kadang kamu tak sadari apa yang kamu miliki, hingga dia pergi. Kamu telah buatnya terluka, tapi masih membiarkan hal kecil merusak segalanya.<br />
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Tuhan memang menjanjikan yang terbaik dalam hidupmu, namun bukan berarti segalanya akan mudah bagimu. Kamu juga harus berusaha.<br />
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Jangan biarkan seseorang jadi bagian terpenting dlm hidupmu, jika kamu hanya sebuah pilihan ketika dia bosan dalam hidupnya. -@AidiMs<br />
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Terkadang, ada beberapa hal yang sebaiknya tidak kamu ketahui. Dan jangan pernah bertanya jika kamu tak ingin mendengar jawabannya.<br />
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Pada akhirnya kamu akan menyadari bahwa tak ada satu pun yang bisa kamu andalkan di dunia ini, kecuali Tuhan & dirimu sendiri. -@WilzKanadi<br />
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Bertahanlah jika kamu benar-benar mencintai. Tapi terkadang kamu diharuskan untuk pergi sebelum membuat keadaan menjadi lebih buruk lagi.<br />
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"Melepaskan": memaafkan masa lalumu, membiarkan waktu menyembuhkan lukamu, & membiarkan Tuhan menuntun jalanmu. -@AmandaAdriani<br />
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Hal baik akan didapati ketika kamu bersyukur. Hal buruk akan dialami ketika kamu mengeluh. Pilih mana, bersyukur atau mengeluh?<br />
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Tak perlu malu untuk menerima bantuan. Karena dibantu tak selalu berarti bahwa kamu lemah, tetapi itu berarti bahwa kamu tak sendiri.<br />
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Berpikirlah sebelum berbicara. Tapi jangan berpikir terlalu lama, karena ada beberapa hal yang membutuhkan tindakan yang cepat.<br />
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Ketika kamu berpikir untuk menyerah, ingatlah, Tuhan tak akan berikan cobaan melebihi kemampuanmu, Tuhan hanya menguji kesabaranmu.<br />
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Doaku pagi ini: Tuhan, beri aku kekuatan tuk bisa melalui hari ini, tuk menghadapi segala masalah yang kutahu hanya buatku dewasa.<br />
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Jangan terus tangisi dia yang telah pergi demi orang lain. Dia menghampiri hidupmu tuk mengingatkan bahwa yang terbaik telah menantimu di depan.<br />
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Ketika tulus mencinta, meski dia telah berikan luka yg tak terlupa, rasa yang ada takkan pernah sirna, terutama kenangan indah bersamanya.<br />
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Terkadang, meski masih sendiri, kamu tahu bahwa hatimu telah dimiliki oleh seseorang yang bahkan tak menyadari kehadiranmu. -@AidiMs<br />
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Menyakitkan ketika kamu tengah memikirkan dia yang kamu cinta, dan kamu tahu bahwa dia tengah memikirkan orang lain.. :|<br />
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Hanya karena dia tak menyukai sikapmu, tak berarti kamu harus mengubah kepribadianmu. Jangan kehilangan dirimu dlm proses mencintai seseorang.<br />
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Apapun yang terjadi, tersenyumlah. Jangan biarkan mereka yang membencimu merasa bahagia karena melihatmu tak mampu bertahan dari sebuah masalah.<br />
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Terkadang, kamu tahu kapan harus melepaskan sesuatu yang terus buatmu terluka. Tapi TAHU adalah hal yang berbeda dengan BISA. -@AidiMs<br />
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Kita bertengkar, kita semakin mengenal. Kita menyakiti, kita semakin mencintai. Kita menghindar, kita semakin merindukan. -@AmandaAdriani</blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-87745071969171212172012-11-12T16:32:00.002+09:002012-11-12T16:32:15.190+09:00Miscellaneous QuotationsIt's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ~Kin Hubbard<br /><br /><br />Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form<br />Glasses itself in tempests.<br />~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage<br /><br /><br />All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />And thus I clothe my naked villainy<br />With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ<br />And seem a saint when most I play the devil.<br />~William Shakespeare, Richard III, 1593<br /><br /><br />From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925<br /><br /><br />To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951<br /><br /><br />No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle, "Count Cagliostro," 1833<br /><br /><br />Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back. ~Wendell Phillips,Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852<br /><br /><br />He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. ~Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930<br /><br /><br />It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Crabbed Age and Youth," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881<br /><br /><br />We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665<br /><br /><br />We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860<br /><br /><br />The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arab Proverb<br /><br /><br />Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. ~Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932<br /><br /><br />Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. ~Montesquieu,Variètès<br /><br /><br />Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588<br /><br /><br />We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Just because you're not uptight doesn't mean you're irresponsible. And vice versa. When will those Conservatives ever learn? ~Carrie Latet<br /><br /><br />The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954<br /><br /><br />In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951<br /><br /><br />It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. ~La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665<br /><br /><br />The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965<br /><br /><br />Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ~G.B. Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists," 1898<br /><br /><br />I think the enemy is here before us.... I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed.... I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land. ~Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1949<br /><br /><br />Is a stolen copyright a copywrong? ~Anonymous<br /><br /><br />There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938<br /><br /><br />I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. ~Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888<br /><br /><br />Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872<br /><br /><br />We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888<br /><br /><br />Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ~Erica Jong<br /><br /><br />Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. ~Albert Camus<br /><br /><br />No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams<br /><br /><br />We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Eloquence is vehement simplicity. ~Richard Cecil<br /><br /><br />True eloquence forgoes eloquence. ~André Gide<br /><br /><br />...for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," about a sculpture, translated by Stephen Mitchell<br /><br /><br />Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br />If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does? ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822<br /><br /><br />Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman<br /><br /><br />I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch<br /><br /><br />No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. ~Cicero<br /><br /><br />There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~G.K. Chesterton<br /><br /><br />We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall<br /><br /><br />It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. ~Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies<br /><br /><br />I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. ~A.A. Milne<br /><br /><br />The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder<br /><br /><br />The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. ~Goethe<br /><br /><br />An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. ~Henry S. Haskins<br /><br /><br />We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. ~John Dewey<br /><br /><br />There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. ~Joseph Conrad<br /><br /><br />Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. ~Theodor Haecker<br /><br /><br />Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson<br /><br /><br />It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~Upton Sinclair<br /><br /><br />Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. ~Erich Fromm<br /><br /><br />The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. ~José Iturbi<br /><br /><br />The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838<br /><br /><br />Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. ~Hermann Hesse<br /><br /><br />The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. ~Havelock Ellis<br /><br /><br />Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical<br /><br /><br />I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. ~Orson Welles<br /><br /><br />'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one. ~Laurence Sterne<br /><br /><br />Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ~Howard W. Newton<br /><br /><br />Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60." ~Nicholas Murray Butler<br /><br /><br />No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James M. Barrie<br /><br /><br />Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it. ~Franklin P. Jones<br /><br /><br />There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good. ~Burton Hillis<br /><br /><br />We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. ~Norman Cousins<br /><br /><br />Originality is the art of concealing your source. ~Franklin P. Jones<br /><br /><br />I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ~Marcus Porcius Cato<br /><br /><br />It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. ~C.W. Leadbeater<br /><br /><br />Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ~Arthur Schopenhauer<br /><br /><br />We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~Peter Drucker<br /><br /><br />We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ~Duc de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br /><br />Fame - the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. ~Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br /><br />I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~Ring Lardner<br /><br /><br />Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~Mohandas Gandhi<br /><br /><br />He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ~Sydney Smith<br /><br /><br />The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ~Don Herold<br /><br /><br />We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? ~Francis Bacon<br /><br /><br />Resting is the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually. It's very dangerous to rest all of a sudden. ~From the movie Topper, 1937<br /><br /><br />A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ~William Allen White<div>
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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. ~Lewis Mumford<br /><br /><br />Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. ~José Ortega y Gasset<br /><br /><br />The first requisite for immortality is death. ~Stanislaw J. Lec<br /><br /><br />The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ~Albert Schweitzer<br /><br /><br />The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ~Lord Chesterfield<br /><br /><br />But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron,Don Juan, 1819<br /><br /><br />In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;<br />But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.<br />~Wallace Stevens<br /><br /><br />That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. ~Thomas Paine<br /><br /><br />By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)<br /><br /><br />You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ~Booker T. Washington<br /><br /><br />Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George S. Patton<br /><br /><br />Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br /><br />A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg<br /><br /><br />We understand nature by resisting it. ~Gaston Bachelard, La Formation de l'esprit scientifique, 1938<br /><br /><br />I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ~Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977<br /><br /><br />Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824<br /><br /><br />Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815<br /><br /><br />Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain andpleasure. ~Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789<br /><br /><br />The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ~John Barrymore<br /><br /><br />It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~Anatole France<br /><br /><br />Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~Mohandas Gandhi<br /><br /><br />The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Various wordings of this quotation are attributed to Charles F. Aked and Edmund Burke, among others but no author has yet been confirmed as the originator (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way." ~James Thom<br /><br /><br />I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton<br /><br /><br />I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? ~Maurice Maeterlinck<br /><br /><br />The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. ~Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions<br /><br /><br />More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. ~Robert Gordon Menzies<br /><br /><br />An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~James A. Michener, Space<br /><br /><br />Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. ~Joann Thomas<br /><br /><br />Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin<br /><br /><br />There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult. ~Harry and Joan Mier, Happiness Begins Before Breakfast<br /><br /><br />If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus<br /><br /><br />It is an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ~Gloria Steinem<br /><br /><br />Oh, one world at a time! ~Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife<br /><br /><br />I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll<br /><br /><br />Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~Aldous Huxley<br /><br /><br />If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"<br /><br /><br />To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. ~Jean Anouilh<br /><br /><br />Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ~Lord Chesterfield<br /><br /><br />Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. ~Bern Williams<br /><br /><br />Not to go back is somewhat to advance<br />And men must walk, at least, before they dance.<br />~Alexander Pope<br /><br /><br />A problem well stated is a problem half solved. ~Charles F. Kettering<br /><br /><br />No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold<br /><br /><br />I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. ~Edward Somers<br /><br /><br />Little things console us because little things afflict us. ~Blaise Pascal<br /><br /><br />People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. ~Neil Postman<br /><br /><br />There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ~Charles Caleb Colton<br /><br /><br />The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~H.T. Leslie<br /><br /><br />Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. ~John W. Raper<br /><br /><br />Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. ~Elizabeth Elliot<br /><br /><br />Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? ~Martin Marty<br /><br /><br />My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso<br /><br /><br />To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881<br /><br /><br />We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br /><br />Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell<br /><br /><br />Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~Rachel Carson<br /><br /><br />If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. ~Socrates<br /><br /><br />Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. ~Walter J. Johnston<br /><br /><br />The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605<br /><br /><br />Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ~Frederic Chopin<br /><br /><br />But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson<br /><br /><br />The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius Antonius<br /><br /><br />Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital... the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. ~Amory Lovins<br /><br /><br />There I am in my younger days, stargazing,<br />painting picture perfect maps<br />of how my life and love would be<br />not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection,<br />my compass faith in love's perfection<br />I missed a million miles of road I should have seen.<br />~Indigo Girls<br /><br /><br />I shall not let a sorrow die<br />Until I find the heart of it,<br />Nor let a wordless joy go by<br />Until it talks to me a bit.<br />~Sara Teasdale<br /><br /><br />A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ~George Santayana<br /><br /><br />The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ~Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986<br /><br /><br />We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ~André Maurois, BBC-TV, January 1958<br /><br /><br />To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942<br /><br /><br />Of all sad words of tongue or pen,<br />The saddest are these: "It might have been!"<br />~John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud Muller," 1854<br /><br /><br />The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. ~Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946<br /><br /><br />Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established. ~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888<br /><br /><br />The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. ~André Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930<br /><br /><br />Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. ~Alan Barth,The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951<br /><br /><br />His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ~Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749<br /><br /><br />The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. ~Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique<br /><br /><br />When to the sessions of sweet silent thought<br />I summon up remembrance of things past,<br />I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought<br />And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.<br />~William Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 30<br /><br /><br />The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665<br /><br /><br />It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ~André Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924<br /><br /><br />The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920<br /><br /><br />It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. ~Maurice Barreès, La Grande Pitié des églises de France, 1914<br /><br /><br />Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834<br /><br /><br />Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. ~Voltaire, 1767<br /><br /><br />Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~Herbert Hoover, attributed<br /><br /><br />I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. ~Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941<br /><br /><br />We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941<br /><br /><br />Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br />Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. ~Albert Camus<br /><br /><br />Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche<br /><br /><br />What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. ~Stanislaw J. Lec<br /><br /><br />The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~Josh Billings<br /><br /><br />The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ~Anatole France<br /><br /><br />The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. ~James Bryce<br /><br /><br />When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. ~Eric Hoffer<br /><br /><br />The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. ~Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics<br /><br /><br />It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. ~Arthur Christopher Benson<br /><br /><br />However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />None are so blind as those who will not see. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb<br /><br /><br />For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ~Elizabeth Bowen<br /><br /><br />The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. ~Don Marquis<br /><br /><br />Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. ~Epictetus<br /><br /><br />Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell<br /><br /><br />Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. ~Richard Whately<br /><br /><br />A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen. ~Emily Lotney<br /><br /><br />There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. ~G.K. Chesterton<br /><br /><br />Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />With what a leaden and retarding weight<br />Does expectation load the wing of time!<br />~William Mason<br /><br /><br />When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ~Leo Burnett<br /><br /><br />Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. ~Cicero<br /><br /><br />Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. ~James A. Pike<br /><br /><br />Ruin and recovery are both from within. ~Epictetus<br /><br /><br />Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ~Samuel Lover<br /><br /><br />To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<br /><br /><br />The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott<br /><br /><br />To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will and Ariel Durant<br /><br /><br />He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. ~Henri Frederic Amiel<br /><br /><br />Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley<br /><br /><br />Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />People "died" all the time.... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions - decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out... you always knew when you made a decision against life.... The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and dead. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br /><br /><br />If... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. ~Catherine Aird<br /><br /><br />There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. ~W. Somerset Maugham<br /><br /><br />Let us then be up and doing,<br />With a heart for any fate;<br />Still achieving, still pursuing,<br />Learn to labor and to wait.<br />~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life<br /><br /><br />Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ~Donald Trump<br /><br /><br />You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong. ~Jerry Kopke<br /><br /><br />The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald<br /><br /><br />A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ~Homer<br /><br /><br />I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. ~Mary Todd Lincoln<br /><br /><br />Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. ~Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br /><br />The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br /><br />Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. ~Thomas Fuller<br /><br /><br />If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ~Alphonse Karr<br /><br /><br />Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:<br />The proper study of mankind is man.<br />~Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, 1733<br /><br /><br />Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. ~W.N. Rieger<br /><br /><br />If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. ~Simone Weil<br /><br /><br />There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887<br /><br /><br />To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ~T.S. Eliot<br /><br /><br />It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy - the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The sunrise never failed us yet. ~Celia Thaxter<br /><br /><br />Bear shame and glory with an equal peace and an ever tranquil heart. ~Bhagavad Gita<br /><br /><br />Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br /><br />[W]hat counts can't be counted. ~Author unknown, c.1956 quoted in Political science in the United States of America: a trend report, UNESCO, see also "[N]ot everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" by William Bruce Cameron, 1963, commonly attributed to Albert Einstein as "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick<br /><br /><br />I dwell in Possibility<br />A fairer house than Prose<br />More numerous of Windows<br />Superior - for Doors.<br />~Emily Dickinson<br /><br /><br />If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ~Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 ("Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." ~John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159, translated from Latin)<br /><br /><br />Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne<br /><br /><br />If there's another world, he lives in bliss;<br />If there is none, he made the best of this.<br />~Robert Burns, "Epitaph on William Muir"<br /><br /><br />I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger<br /><br /><br />All she keeps inside isn't on the label. ~Fuel<br /><br /><br />The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ~Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues<br /><br /><br />The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. ~Donald Barthelme<br /><br /><br />Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ~Ansel Adams<br /><br /><br />An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. ~Nicholas Murray Butler<br /><br /><br />Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969<br /><br /><br />Only as high as I reach can I grow<br />Only as far as I seek can I go<br />Only as deep as I look can I see<br />Only as much as I dream can I be.<br />~Karen Ravn<br /><br /><br />He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ~Amanda Bradley<br /><br /><br />Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ~B. Quilliam<br /><br /><br />Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning<br /><br /><br />He drew a circle that shut me out - heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.<br />But love and I had the wit to win - and we drew a circle that took him in!<br />~Edwin Markham<br /><br /><br />It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. Le Guin<br /><br /><br />I will not die an unlived life.... I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~Dawna Markova<br /><br /><br />The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. ~Pierre Tielhard de Chardin<br /><br /><br />Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. ~Wayne Gretzky<br /><br /><br />Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. ~Dr. Seuss<br /><br /><br />It's not enough to have a dream,<br />unless you're willing to pursue it.<br />It's not enough to know what's right,<br />unless you're strong enough to do it.<br />It's not enough to learn the truth,<br />unless you also learn to live it.<br />It's not enough to reach for love,<br />unless you care enough to give it.<br />~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln<br /><br /><br />If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. ~Jay Leno<br /><br /><br />A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and just be my friend. ~Albert Camus<br /><br /><br />My nature is subdu'd<br />To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.<br />~William Shakespeare<br /><br /><br />Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. ~Victor Hugo<br /><br /><br />Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />If there were dreams to sell,...<br />Merry and sad to tell,<br />And the crier rang the bell,<br />What would you buy?<br />~Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Dream-Pedlary<br /><br /><br />[T]hou art to me a delicious torment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"<br /><br /><br />Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~T.S. Eliot<br /><br /><br />No star is ever lost we once have seen,<br />We always may be what we might have been.<br />~Adelaide A. Procter, Legend of Provence<br /><br /><br />God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley<br /><br /><br />The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking. ~Rhann Morgan<br /><br /><br />Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~Pamela Vaull Starr<br /><br /><br />But who shall parcel out<br />His intellect by geometric rules,<br />Split like a province into round and square?<br />~William Wordsworth, The Prelude<br /><br /><br />Every man is the son of his own works. ~Miguel de Cervantes<br /><br /><br />Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. ~Lee Venden<br /><br /><br />A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. ~John B. Gough<br /><br /><br />When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. ~Rosellen Brown<br /><br /><br />Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><br />Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin<br /><br /><br />Every man expects some miracle - either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. ~Paul Valéry<br /><br /><br />The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. ~Ivor Brown<br /><br /><br />The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. ~Ellen Glasgow<br /><br /><br />Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. ~Christopher Morley<br /><br /><br />The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas<br /><br /><br />A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. ~Tim Cahill<br /><br /><br />I cannot help it, - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ~Alfred de Musset,L'Espoir en Dieu<br /><br /><br />It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated<br /><br /><br />God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br />An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense<br /><br /><br />No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. ~William Ralph Inge<br /><br /><br />History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan<br /><br /><br />Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. ~Anaïs Nin<br /><br /><br />The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James<br /><br /><br />Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. ~Buddha<br /><br /><br />A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br /><br />Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.... ~Hermann Weyl<br /><br /><br />When darkness descends on summer nights, the air around campfires, lanterns and cottage windows becomes filled with swirling moths seemingly intent on self destruction. The suicide fliers are drawn to the flames and light because they normally navigate a straight course by keeping constant the angle of moonlight or sunbeams falling on their eyes. Night lights created by humans disorient moths, causing them to flutter round and round the source without being able to get their bearings. ~Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, Up North<br /><br /><br />One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~A.A. Milne<br /><br /><br />Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967<br /><br /><br />Vain the ambition of kings<br />Who seek by trophies and dead things<br />To leave a living name behind,<br />And weave but nets to catch the wind.<br />~John Webster<br /><br /><br />To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target. ~Patrick Toche<br /><br /><br />All that is gold does not glitter,<br />Not all those who wander are lost.<br />The old that is strong does not wither,<br />Deep roots are not reached by the frost.<br />~J.R.R. Tolkien<br /><br /><br />A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. ~Franklin P. Jones<br /><br /><br />A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~Winston Churchill<br /><br /><br />Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism<br /><br /><br />Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects," Miscellanies, 1711<br /><br /><br />There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism. ~Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-40464063236496060422012-11-12T16:29:00.003+09:002012-11-12T16:29:42.443+09:00Quotations about YogaWhen this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga. ~Geeta Iyengar<br /><br /><br />Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar<br /><br /><br />The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub<br /><br /><br />The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. ~Richard Hittleman<br /><br /><br />Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. ~Bob Harper<br /><br /><br />You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon<br /><br /><br />Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~K. Pattabhi Jois<br /><br /><br />By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~Phillip Moffitt<br /><br /><br />Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~K. Pattabhi Jois<br /><br /><br />I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes. ~Gary Kraftsow<br /><br /><br />I like the physical part, but I'm also drawn to the spiritual. For me, yoga is not just a workout—it's about working on yourself. ~Mary Glover, "Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind," Arizona Republic, 2004 April 6<br /><br /><br />In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born. ~Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa<br /><br /><br />A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, <a href="http://www.wildthymecreative.com/">www.wildthymecreative.com</a><br /><br /><br />The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner & co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com<br /><br /><br />Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung<br /><br /><br />Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more. ~Patricia Walden<br /><br /><br />When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. ~Valerie Jeremijenko<br /><br /><br />Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields<br /><br /><br />The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world." ~Barbara Stoler Miller<br /><br /><br />Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics. ~Rachel Schaeffer<br /><br /><br />If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union—the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. ~B.K.S. Iyengar,Astadala Yogamala<br /><br /><br />Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance. ~Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa<br /><br /><br />Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~Svatmarama<br /><br /><br />Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~Patañjali<br /><br /><br />Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. ~Jason Crandell, quoted in Yoga Journal, November 2005<br /><br /><br />Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ~Bhagavad Gita<br /><br /><br />Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body. ~Tara Fraser<br /><br /><br />Yoga doesn't take time, it gives time. ~Ganga White<br /><br /><br />Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~Baxter Bell, quoted in "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006<br /><br /><br />Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~Melanie Haiken, "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006<br /><br /><br />The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. ~Sri Aurobindo<br /><br /><br />That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation. ~Rodney Yee<br /><br /><br />The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. ~Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcendent<br /><br /><br />Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. ~Erich Schiffmann<br /><br /><br />The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga — the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body — you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. ~Richard Faulds<br /><br /><br />When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar<br /><br /><br />Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Tirumalai Krishnamacharya<br /><br /><br />Hatha is the sanctuary for those suffering every type of pain. It is the foundation for those practicing every type of Yoga. ~Svatmarama, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translated from Sanskrit by Brian Dana Akers (<a href="http://www.yogavidya.com/">yogavidya.com</a>)<br /><br /><br />One succeeds in all Yogas through energetic practice—even if one is young, old, very old, sick, or weak. ~Svatmarama, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translated from Sanskrit by Brian Dana Akers (<a href="http://www.yogavidya.com/">yogavidya.com</a>)<br /><br /><br />For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head. ~Rodney Yee<br /><br /><br />Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff<br /><br /><br />I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." ~Ellen DeGeneres<br /><br /><br />Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff<br /><br /><br />Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Tree pose grows confidence. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Yoga practitioners advise the times around sunrise and sunset, well before eating a meal, as the best time for yoga and meditation practice. The science of biometeorology (the study of natural forces on human and animal life) tells us that the sun has a tremendous impact upon the lives of plants, animals, and human beings. Even our blood chemistry changes with the rising and setting of the sun! Therefore, there may be a chemical basis for the thousands of years of belief, in every spiritual tradition, that to meditate and pray at sunrise and sunset is somehow more effective, more auspicious. ~Vimala Schneider McClure, A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga<br /><br /><br />We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely. ~John McAfee<br /><br /><br />The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. ~Donna Farhi<br /><br /><br />The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine. ~Tara Fraser<br /><br /><br />Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<br /><br /><br />Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams, Ashtanga yoga teacher in Maui, Hawaii, quoted from yoga.com<br /><br /><br />I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~Terri GuillemetsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-30009353805210563572012-11-12T16:28:00.001+09:002012-11-12T16:28:22.821+09:00Quotations about WritingSo often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948<br /><br /><br />The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin<br /><br /><br />You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury<br /><br /><br />Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow<br /><br /><br />A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy<br /><br /><br />And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath<br /><br /><br />I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977<br /><br /><br />I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard<br /><br /><br />If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison<br /><br /><br />What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931<br /><br /><br />The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt<br /><br /><br />It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West<br /><br /><br />Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien<br /><br /><br />Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence. ~William Allen White (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ~James Michener<br /><br /><br />The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer<br /><br /><br />Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ~Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938<br /><br /><br />Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth<br /><br /><br />The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov<br /><br /><br />Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov<br /><br /><br />Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /><br /><br />Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~Orson Scott Card<br /><br /><br />A metaphor is like a simile. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. ~Mark Twain, letter to George Bainton, 1888 (Thanks, Andrew & Barbara), variation of Josh Billings' "Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug."<br /><br /><br />The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~Jules Renard, "Diary," February 1895<br /><br /><br />Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus<br /><br /><br />A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else," The Dame School of Experience, 1920<br /><br /><br />When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842<br /><br /><br />I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James Michener<br /><br /><br />Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~Jeb Dickerson, <a href="http://www.howtomatter.com/">www.howtomatter.com</a><br /><br /><br />If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov<br /><br /><br />I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. ~Peter De Vries<br /><br /><br />Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /><br /><br />A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957<br /><br /><br />To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967<br /><br /><br />A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961<br /><br /><br />I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English Professor (Name Unknown), Ohio University<br /><br /><br />Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~Hannah Arendt<br /><br /><br />It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. ~Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989<br /><br /><br />For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. ~John Cheever<br /><br /><br />Do not put statements in the negative form.<br />And don't start sentences with a conjunction.<br />If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a<br />great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.<br />Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.<br />Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.<br />De-accession euphemisms.<br />If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.<br />Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.<br />Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.<br />~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"<br /><br /><br />No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907<br /><br /><br />Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler<br /><br /><br />Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon<br /><br /><br />The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ~William Gass, "Habitations of the Word," Kenyon Review, October 1984<br /><br /><br />Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White <br /><br /><br />Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor<br /><br /><br />It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ~Joan Baez<br /><br /><br />When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ~Samuel Butler<br /><br /><br />Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato<br /><br /><br />Let me walk through the fields of paper<br />touching with my wand<br />dry stems and stunted<br />butterflies....<br />~Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks"<br /><br /><br />When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670<br /><br /><br />Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller<br /><br /><br />Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish<br /><br /><br />When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela<br /><br /><br />I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross<br /><br /><br />When you are describing,<br />A shape, or sound, or tint;<br />Don't state the matter plainly,<br />But put it in a hint;<br />And learn to look at all things,<br />With a sort of mental squint.<br />~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)<br /><br /><br />Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch<br /><br /><br />The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron<br /><br /><br />If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ~Anais Nin<br /><br /><br />I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. ~Jack Smith<br /><br /><br />An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~Juvenal, Satires<br /><br /><br />Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes<br /><br /><br />Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it. ~Jack London, "Getting Into Print," 1905<br /><br /><br />The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~Elias Canetti<br /><br /><br />It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories. ~Paul Gallico, "Confessions of a Story Writer," 1946<br /><br /><br />All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer<br /><br /><br />One hates an author that's all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"<br /><br /><br />What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~Burton Rascoe<br /><br /><br />The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ~Agatha Christie<br /><br /><br />An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. ~Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski<br /><br /><br />A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson<br /><br /><br />Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson<br /><br /><br />If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis<br /><br /><br />There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. ~Miguel de Cervantes<br /><br /><br />Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow<br /><br /><br />The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik<br /><br /><br />An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ~Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs<br /><br /><br />The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. ~Robert Brault,<a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. ~T.S. Eliot<br /><br /><br />What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ~André Gide<br /><br /><br />Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts... ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, <a href="http://www.wildthymecreative.com/">www.wildthymecreative.com</a><br /><br /><br />A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938<br /><br /><br />They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621<br /><br /><br />The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King<br /><br /><br />It is plagiarism when you take something out of a book and use it as your own. If you take it out of several books then it is research. ~Quoted by Ralph Foss, 1932(Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ~Karl Kraus<br /><br /><br />As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894<br /><br /><br />We write to remember our nows later. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf<br /><br /><br />Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. ~Anatole France<br /><br /><br />I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ~Norman Mailer<br /><br /><br />When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on. ~Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn<br /><br /><br />I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron<br /><br /><br />Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900<br /><br /><br />It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. ~Havelock Ellis<br /><br /><br />Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ~Charles Caleb Colton<br /><br /><br />You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ~Saul Bellow<br /><br /><br />Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson <a href="http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#3">(*)</a> (Thanks, Frank Lynch)<br /><br /><br />How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 19 August 1851<br /><br /><br />I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938<br /><br /><br />The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. ~Washington Irving<br /><br /><br />Ink surrounds me all the time<br />On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme<br />Quills 'ever scribbling in my head<br />Sometimes damnit I forget what they said.<br />Ink has settled into my fingerprints<br />But to keep the words I fear to rinse...<br />~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester<br /><br /><br />It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis<br /><br /><br />Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />[T]he author writes as a race-horse runs, for the sake of it. He feels like it, and kindles just because he enjoys burning. ~The Living Way, edited and published by S.D. Simonds, Volume III, 1872, referring to Joaquin Miller and his poem "Isles of the Amazons"<br /><br /><br />Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche<br /><br /><br />It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. ~Samuel Johnson, 1751<br /><br /><br />Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~E.B. White<br /><br /><br />A notepad by the bedside accounts for half the earnings of my livelihood. If it weren't for bedtime, half my novels would still be stuck at dock. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. ~Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, 1991<br /><br /><br />Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. ~Peter S. Prescott<br /><br /><br />It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. ~Uniek Swain<br /><br /><br />True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,<br />As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.<br />~Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"<br /><br /><br />Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~Franz Kafka<br /><br /><br />An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~Gustave Flaubert<br /><br /><br />If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. ~Leo Tolstoy<br /><br /><br />The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. ~Bergen Evans<br /><br /><br />What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach. ~Logan Pearsall Smith<br /><br /><br />No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ~Russell Lynes<br /><br /><br />A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ~Jean Luc Godard<br /><br /><br />Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ~James Norman Hall<br /><br /><br />Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. ~Gail Hamilton<br /><br /><br />Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? ~Joan Didion<br /><br /><br />I could give you a number of examples to show how widespread has been this practice of mutual pilfering among the authors of our old literature.... by transferring something of theirs to his own immortal work he [Virgil] has ensured that the memory of these old writers—whom, as the tastes of today show, we are already beginning to deride as well as to neglect—should not wholly perish. ~Macrobius, Saturnalia<br /><br /><br />I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud. ~Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com<br /><br /><br />Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ~A. Bronson Alcott<br /><br /><br />The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ~William Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958<br /><br /><br />A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947<br /><br /><br />The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay<br /><br /><br />[A] great writer creates his precursors. ~Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952, translated from Spanish<br /><br /><br />The only cure for writer's block is insomnia. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964<br /><br /><br />Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. ~Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895<br /><br /><br />The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ~Ray Bradbury<br /><br /><br />Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ~Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927<br /><br /><br />You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ~G.K. Chesterton<br /><br /><br />The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~André Gide, Journals, 1894<br /><br /><br />Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. ~Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963<br /><br /><br />The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. ~Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963<br /><br /><br />i never think at all when i write<br />nobody can do two things at the same time<br />and do them both well<br />~Don Marquis, Archy's Life of Mehitabel, 1933<br /><br /><br />Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. ~Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927<br /><br /><br />Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791<br /><br /><br />An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802<br /><br /><br />Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. ~Mae West<br /><br /><br />The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958<br /><br /><br />There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. ~Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 21 September 1957<br /><br /><br />I hate writing, I love having written. ~Dorothy Parker, may not be exact wording<br /><br /><br />Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)<br /><br /><br />One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane<br /><br /><br />He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. ~John Ray<br /><br /><br />Writing is a product of silence. ~Carrie Latet<br /><br /><br />A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton<br /><br /><br />Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. ~Fay Weldon<br /><br /><br />Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br /><br />Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler<br /><br /><br />It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ~Robert Benchley<br /><br /><br />No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. ~Van Wyck Brooks<br /><br /><br />The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958<br /><br /><br />The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br /> For, to speak my private Opinion, I am for every Man's working upon his own Materials, and producing only what he can find within himself, which is commonly a better Stock than the Owner knows it to be. I think Flowers of Wit ought to spring, as those in a Garden do, from their own Root and Stem, without Foreign Assistance. I would have a Man's Wit rather like a Fountain, that feeds it self invisibly, than a River, that is supply'd by several Streams from abroad.<br /> Or if it be necessary, as the Case is with some barren Wits, to take in the Thoughts of others, in order to draw forth their own, as dry Pumps will not play till Water is thrown into them; in that Necessity, I would recommend some of the approv'd Standard-Authors of Antiquity for your Perusal, as a Poet and a Wit; because Maggots being what you look for, as Monkeys do for Vermin in their Keepers Heads, you will find they abound in good old Authors, as in rich old Cheese, not in the new; and for that Reason you must have the Classicks, especially the most Worm-eaten of them, often in your Hands.<br /> But with this Caution, that you are not to use those Ancients as unlucky Lads do their old Fathers, and make no Conscience of picking their Pockets and pillaging them. Your Business is not to steal from them, but to improve uponthem, and make their Sentiments your own; which is an Effect of the great Judgment; and tho difficult, yet very possible, without the scurvy Imputation of Filching: For I humbly conceive, tho' I light my Candle at my Neighbour's Fire, that does not alter the Property, or make the Wyck, the Wax, or the Flame, or the whole Candle, less my own.<br /> Possibly you may think it a very severe Task, to arrive at a competent Knowledge of so many of the Ancients, as excel in their Way; and indeed it would be really so, but for the short and easie Method lately found out of Abstracts, Abridgments, Summaries, &c. which are admirable Expedients for being very learned with little or no Reading; and have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus'd Rays of Wit and Learning in Authors, and make them point with Warmth and Quickness upon the Reader's Imagination. And to this is nearly related that other modern Device of consulting Indexes, which is to read BooksHebraically, and begin where others usually end; and this is a compendious Way of coming to an Acquaintance with Authors: For Authors are to be used likeLobsters, you must look for the best Meat in the Tails, and lay the Bodies back again in the Dish....<br /> ~Jonathan Swift, "A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in this Kingdom," 1721<br /><br /><br />The best style is the style you don't notice. ~Somerset Maugham<br /><br /><br />There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. ~William Makepeace Thackeray<br /><br /><br />I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike<br /><br /><br />When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. ~Emily Dickinson<br /><br /><br />Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. ~Leo Tolstoy<br /><br /><br />Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-7779445256391561052012-11-12T16:25:00.004+09:002012-11-12T16:25:58.563+09:00Quotations about WorryingWorry is a misuse of imagination. ~Dan Zadra<br /><br /><br />If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold<br /><br /><br />Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russell Lowell<br /><br /><br />If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson<br /><br /><br />Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia<br /><br /><br />Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie<br /><br /><br />I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)<br /><br /><br />Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman<br /><br /><br />Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. ~Steve Bull<br /><br /><br />I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number. ~Edith Armstrong<br /><br /><br />Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ~Mike Nichols<br /><br /><br />I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"<br /><br /><br />People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder<br /><br /><br />The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927<br /><br /><br />Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner<br /><br /><br />People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," Parents and Children, 1914<br /><br /><br />Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee<br /><br /><br />Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille<br /><br /><br />For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~Cullen Hightower<br /><br /><br />If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. ~Dean Smith<br /><br /><br />It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery<br /><br /><br />A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~George Herbert<br /><br /><br />As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~Thomas A. Edison<br /><br /><br />Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb<br /><br /><br />Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale<div>
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton<br /><br /><br />Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan't a fli. ~Josh Billings<br /><br /><br />Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur<br /><br /><br />Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion. ~Deng Ming-Dao<br /><br /><br />You can never worry your way to enlightenment. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban<br /><br /><br />[A]ny concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook<br /><br /><br />I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating." ~E.B. White<br /><br /><br />There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette<br /><br /><br />A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. ~John Lubbock<br /><br /><br />As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar<br /><br /><br />If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure. ~Stephenie Geist<br /><br /><br />I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Worry is rust upon the blade. ~Henry Ward Hughes<br /><br /><br />Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving. ~Mike Dolan,<a href="http://www.hawaiianlife.com/">www.hawaiianlife.com</a><br /><br /><br />Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. ~Martin Luther<br /><br /><br />I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ~Dorothy Day<br /><br /><br />Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ~George MacDonald<br /><br /><br />Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz<br /><br /><br />Some of your hurts you have cured,<br />And the sharpest you still have survived,<br />But what torments of grief you endured<br />From the evil which never arrived.<br />~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. ~William Powell<br /><br /><br />My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne<br /><br /><br />Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge<br /><br /><br />When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~Joseph Joubert<br /><br /><br />Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe<br /><br /><br />How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~Thomas Jefferson<br /><br /><br />Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger,<a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/bk-cr.html">Catcher in the Rye</a><br /><br /><br />Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche<br /><br /><br />We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. ~Etty Hillesum<br /><br /><br />There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~Josh Billings<br /><br /><br />Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. ~John Dryden<br /><br /><br />Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge<br /><br /><br />There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca<br /><br /><br />We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding<br /><br /><br />We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979<br /><br /><br />There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ~Pliny the Younger<br /><br /><br />Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail<br /><br /><br />No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. ~George MacDonald<br /><br /><br />Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. ~Robert Eliot<br /><br /><br />They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ~Jack Kerouac<br /><br /><br />He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588<br /><br /><br />No human thing is of serious importance. ~Plato, The Republic<br /><br /><br />Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. ~Philip Gulley<br /><br /><br />Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head<br />And kick every worriment out of the bed.<br />~Edmund Vance Cooke<br /><br /><br />Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. CrowleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-34594302834611550852012-11-12T16:24:00.004+09:002012-11-12T16:24:55.745+09:00Quotations about WomenThere is no such thing as an ugly woman. ~Vincent Van Gogh<br /><br /><br />If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry<br /><br /><br />Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956<br /><br /><br />Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"<br /><br /><br />Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher<br /><br /><br />A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow<br /><br /><br />You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford<br /><br /><br />Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter<br /><br /><br />The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain<br /><br /><br />Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton<br /><br /><br />Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo<br /><br /><br />The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen<br /><br /><br />Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West<br /><br /><br />Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander<br /><br /><br />Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly<br /><br /><br />A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew<br /><br /><br />The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf<br /><br /><br />There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright<br /><br /><br />A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins<br /><br /><br />When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp<br /><br /><br />The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer<br /><br /><br />Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid<br /><br /><br />Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ~George Eliot, "The Harvest Supper," Adam Bede<br /><br /><br />Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields<br /><br /><br />Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com<br /><br /><br />Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche<br /><br /><br />I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith<br /><br /><br />Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner<br /><br /><br />Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier<br /><br /><br />Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)<br /><br /><br />The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ~Guy de Maupassant<br /><br /><br />I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash<br /><br /><br />When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy<br /><br /><br />The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir<br /><br /><br />They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Be to her virtues very kind,<br />Be to her faults a little blind.<br />~Matthew Prior<br /><br /><br />They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith<br /><br /><br />A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace<br /><br /><br />It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ~J.M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows<br /><br /><br />If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis<br /><br /><br />Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis<br /><br /><br />Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<div>
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I married beneath me - all women do. ~Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951<br /><br /><br />Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli<br /><br /><br />Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire<br /><br /><br />If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974<br /><br /><br />Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. ~Gilda Radner<br /><br /><br />She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973<br /><br /><br />It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils<br /><br /><br />I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen<br /><br /><br />When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison<br /><br /><br />All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud<br /><br /><br />Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. ~Camille Paglia<br /><br /><br />No woman will ever be satisfied because no man will ever have a chocolate penis that shoots out money. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />When I glimpse the backs of women's knees I seem to hear the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye<br /><br /><br />No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug<br /><br /><br />The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood<br /><br /><br />Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore<br /><br /><br />A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot<br /><br /><br />There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus<br /><br /><br />No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage<br /><br /><br />The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />If a woman must make a fool of herself, the least a man can do is to let her be one in her own way. ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play - anyone know?)<br /><br /><br />Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. ~Billy Joel<br /><br /><br />A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Stürm<br /><br /><br />In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. ~Nancy Astor, My Two Countries<br /><br /><br />God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor<br /><br /><br />Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson<br /><br /><br />A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. ~Helen Rowland<br /><br /><br />I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin<br /><br /><br />And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. ~Helen Rowland<br /><br /><br />I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss<br /><br /><br />Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed<br /><br /><br />If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />There are three ways to spread news: telegram, television, and tellawoman. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933<br /><br /><br />One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949<br /><br /><br />Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust,Albertine disparue, 1925<br /><br /><br />Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960<br /><br /><br />Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield<br /><br /><br />A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving<br /><br /><br />The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br /><br />After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~Mel Gibson, about what women want<br /><br /><br />Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas<br /><br /><br />I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. ~Benny Hill<br /><br /><br />A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><br />You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"<br /><br /><br />The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves<br /><br /><br />What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert<br /><br /><br />Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />A woman should be an illusion. ~Ian Fleming<br /><br /><br />There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills<br /><br /><br />It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère,Characters, 1688<br /><br /><br />Behind every great woman is a guy looking at her ass. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. ~Caroline K. Simon<br /><br /><br />If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle<br /><br /><br />Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart<br /><br /><br />It's simple. Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. ~Louis de Bernières,Captain Corelli's Mandolin<br /><br /><br />It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead<br /><br /><br />Women are beautiful, and yummy. ~A.C. Van Cherub<br /><br /><br />Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. ~Christian Dior,Collier's, June 10, 1955<br /><br /><br />A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus<br /><br /><br />A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb<br /><br /><br />Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910<br /><br /><br />Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Méré<br /><br /><br />There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you. ~A.C. Van Cherub<br /><br /><br />Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West<br /><br /><br />With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696<br /><br /><br />Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970<br /><br /><br />A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber<br /><br /><br />Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer<br /><br /><br />Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It<br /><br /><br />Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz<br /><br /><br />You're booty-blinded. You know what that is? It's like being snow-blinded only it ain't no snow, it's a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy<br /><br /><br />Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin, quoted in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul<br /><br /><br />Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault,<a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed<br /><br /><br />Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare<br /><br /><br />Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ~James Thurber<br /><br /><br />I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire<br /><br /><br />Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingold<br /><br /><br />The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974<br /><br /><br />Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. MenckenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-30525571794767203952012-11-12T16:23:00.003+09:002012-11-12T16:23:40.909+09:00Wise Words Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420<br /><br /><br />You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull(U.S. geologist, 1976-)<br /><br /><br />What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière<br /><br /><br />Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956<br /><br /><br />Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke<br /><br /><br />Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br /><br />If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn<br /><br /><br />In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on<a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII<br /><br /><br />Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros<br /><br /><br />Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br />You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison<br /><br /><br />Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949<br /><br /><br />The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive. ~Jeanne LaMont, MD<br /><br /><br />Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht<br /><br /><br />Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox<br /><br /><br />Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense<br /><br /><br />[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs<br /><br /><br />Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo<br /><br /><br />We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James<br /><br /><br />You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman<br /><br /><br />Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles<br /><br /><br />The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato<br /><br /><br />Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel<br /><br /><br />Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard<br /><br /><br />Always when judging<br />Who people are,<br />Remember to footnote<br />The words "So far."<br />~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr<br /><br /><br />A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris,<a href="http://www.empathicwriter.com/">empathicwriter.com</a><br /><br /><br />People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938<br /><br /><br />The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King<br /><br /><br />I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"<br /><br /><br />If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler<br /><br /><br />Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt<br /><br /><br />Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982<br /><br /><br />Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><br />On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects<br /><br /><br />The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson<br /><br /><br />What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson<br /><br /><br />To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner<br /><br /><br />There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)<br /><br /><br />Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White<br /><br /><br />Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~<a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/mash.html">M*A*S*H</a>, Colonel Potter<br /><br /><br />Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb<br /><br /><br />One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepard<div>
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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar<br /><br /><br />The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles Du Bos, Approximations, 1922, translated from French (Thanks, Lorianne!)<br /><br /><br />Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn<br /><br /><br />Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ~Edward Abbey<br /><br /><br />There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott<br /><br /><br />If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />[T]ime you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein<br /><br /><br />Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold<br /><br /><br />We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale<br /><br /><br />Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless<br /><br /><br />I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs<br /><br /><br />The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison<br /><br /><br />If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ~Barbara Johnson<br /><br /><br />You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf,<a href="http://professorsunwolf.com/">professorsunwolf.com</a><br /><br /><br />Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br /><br />In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life<br /><br /><br />Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911<br /><br /><br />Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis<br /><br /><br />Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln<br /><br /><br />It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi<br /><br /><br />Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. ~Morihei Ueshiba<br /><br /><br />Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick<br /><br /><br />One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico<br /><br /><br />To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith<br /><br /><br />Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb<br /><br /><br />When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus<br /><br /><br />Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne<br /><br /><br />Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin<br /><br /><br />Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ~Edward Steichen<br /><br /><br />Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein<br /><br /><br />Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat. ~Thingsweforget.blogspot.com, #660<br /><br /><br />Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />The biggest problem in the world<br />Could have been solved when it was small.<br />~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu<br /><br /><br />In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer<br /><br /><br />Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost<br /><br /><br />What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960<br /><br /><br />Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. ~Michael Beckwith<br /><br /><br />Bloom where you are planted. ~Mother Jones<br /><br /><br />The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna<br /><br /><br />Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed,become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert<br /><br /><br />Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard<br /><br /><br />I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,<a href="http://www.wildthymecreative.com/">www.wildthymecreative.com</a><br /><br /><br />Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead<br /><br /><br />Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs<br /><br /><br />Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><br />It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979<br /><br /><br />We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury<br /><br /><br />I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee<br /><br /><br />Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt<br /><br /><br />Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton<br /><br /><br />Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. ~Mike Dolan,<a href="http://www.hawaiianlife.com/">www.hawaiianlife.com</a><br /><br /><br />To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates<br /><br /><br />Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha<br /><br /><br />Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers<br /><br /><br />Walk lightly through life. ~Guy Finley<br /><br /><br />Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595<br /><br /><br />Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln<br /><br /><br />Be true to your word and your work and your friend... ~John Boyle O'Reilly, from the poem "Rules of the Road"<br /><br /><br />Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954<br /><br /><br />There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber<br /><br /><br />It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ~Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16 November 1857<br /><br /><br />Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams<br /><br /><br />Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter<br /><br /><br />Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg<br /><br /><br />Being loved by all is little fun<br />Unless you're also loved by one.<br />~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu<br /><br /><br />We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber<br /><br /><br />Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec<br /><br /><br />Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh<br /><br /><br />Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer<br /><br /><br />Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Author unknown, variant of "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented" by Dennis Gabor,Inventing the Future, 1963, and "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" by Alan Kay, 1982 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb<br /><br /><br />Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb<br /><br /><br />Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams<br /><br /><br />It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish<br /><br /><br />It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace<br /><br /><br />Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb<br /><br /><br />Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. ~Stephen Dunn<br /><br /><br />The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison<br /><br /><br />I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck<br /><br /><br />You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger<br /><br /><br />When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins<br /><br /><br />Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger<br /><br /><br />Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson,<a href="http://www.howtomatter.com/">www.howtomatter.com</a><br /><br /><br />Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~Walter Winchell, 1932<br /><br /><br />When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb<br /><br /><br />The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer<br /><br /><br />Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young<br /><br /><br />Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs<br /><br /><br />Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt<br /><br /><br />Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman<br /><br /><br />Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti<br /><br /><br />God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying<br /><br /><br />It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert<br /><br /><br />Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash<br /><br /><br />Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes<br /><br /><br />I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda JacksonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-41846993233036444702012-11-12T16:22:00.001+09:002012-11-12T16:22:13.994+09:00Quotations about WisdomEvery man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><br />We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne<br /><br /><br />Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster<br /><br /><br />Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair<br /><br /><br />He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little<br /><br /><br />Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson<br /><br /><br />How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck<br /><br /><br />The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />When I can look Life in the eyes,<br />Grown calm and very coldly wise,<br />Life will have given me the Truth,<br />And taken in exchange - my youth.<br />~Sara Teasdale<br /><br /><br />The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988<br /><br /><br />Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires<br /><br /><br />A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan<br /><br /><br />It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge<br /><br /><br />A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb<br /><br /><br />Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~Norman Cousins<br /><br /><br />He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker<br /><br /><br />Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson<br /><br /><br />Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~William Wordsworth<br /><br /><br />The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.<br /><br /><br />Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;<br />Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.<br />~William Cowper, "The Winter Walk at Noon"<br /><br /><br />Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson<br /><br /><br />Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~Sophocles<br /><br /><br />If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb<br /><br /><br />The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It<br /><br /><br />One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman<br /><br /><br />The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James<br /><br /><br />It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br /><br />Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings<br /><br /><br />Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant. ~Carrie Latet<br /><br /><br />There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />The prince who would know all, must ignore much. ~Domitius Afer, translated from Latin<br /><br /><br />The child, offered the mother's breast,<br />Will not in the beginning grab it;<br />But soon it clings to it with zest.<br />And thus at wisdom's copious breasts<br />You'll drink each day with greater zest.<br />~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br />Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer<br /><br /><br />A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen<br /><br /><br />There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br /><br />No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca<br /><br /><br />Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard ShawAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-7464045545131043492012-11-12T16:21:00.001+09:002012-11-12T16:21:38.250+09:00Quotations about WinterI prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth<br /><br /><br />Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne<br /><br /><br />There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout<br /><br /><br />One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau<br /><br /><br />Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino<br /><br /><br />The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs<br /><br /><br />Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford<br /><br /><br />I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson<br /><br /><br />Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert<br /><br /><br />"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry<br /><br /><br />When the bold branches<br />Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -<br />Welcome wool sweaters.<br />~B. Cybrill<br /><br /><br />I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers<br /><br /><br />Every winter,<br />When the great sun has turned his face away,<br />The earth goes down into a vale of grief,<br />And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,<br />Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -<br />Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.<br />~Charles Kingsley<br /><br /><br />To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel<br /><br /><br />O, wind,<br />If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?<br />~Percy Bysshe Shelley<br /><br /><br />Winter came down to our home one night<br />Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,<br />And we, we were children once again.<br />~Bill Morgan, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966<br /><br /><br />Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb<br /><br /><br />The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Brew me a cup for a winter's night.<br />For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;<br />Spice it with love and stir it with care,<br />And I'll toast our bright eyes,<br />my sweetheart fair.<br />~Minna Thomas Antrim<br /><br /><br />Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ~Sinclair Lewis<br /><br /><br />Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember<br /><br /><br />Now winter nights enlarge<br />The number of their hours,<br />And clouds their storms discharge<br />Upon the airy towers....<br />~Thomas Campion, "Winter Nights"<br /><br /><br />Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake<br /><br /><br />Of winter's lifeless world each tree<br />Now seems a perfect part;<br />Yet each one holds summer's secret<br />Deep down within its heart.<br />~Charles G. Stater<br /><br /><br />Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude. ~William Shakespeare<br /><br /><br />Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell<br /><br /><br />Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. ~Hugh Macmillan, "Rejuvenescence," The Ministry of Nature, 1871<br /><br /><br />Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb<br /><br /><br />Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. ~Plutarch, MoraliaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-64012238360491274772012-11-12T16:20:00.001+09:002012-11-12T16:20:13.549+09:00Quotations about WeekendsWeekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson<br /><br /><br />Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley<br /><br /><br />There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt<br /><br /><br />The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk<br /><br /><br />The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald<br /><br /><br />Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org<br /><br /><br />Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.<br />You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.<br />No wonder you feel that lost sensation.<br />You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.<br />~Ogden Nash, about weekends<br /><br /><br />Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson<br /><br /><br />Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess<br /><br /><br />Of all the days that's in the week<br />I dearly love but one day<br />And that's the day that comes betwixt<br />A Saturday and Monday.<br />~Henry Carey<br /><br /><br />Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison<br /><br /><br />Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969<br /><br /><br />Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha<br /><br /><br />There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard<br /><br /><br />Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs<br /><br /><br />How pleasant is Saturday night,<br />When I've tried all the week to be good,<br />And not spoke a word that was bad,<br />And obliged everyone that I could.<br />~Nancy Sproat<br /><br /><br />I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin<br /><br /><br />The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~Jean Rhys<br /><br /><br />Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~Richard Rorty<br /><br /><br />Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash<br /><br /><br />Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed HoweAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-19687549277765822962012-11-12T16:19:00.004+09:002012-11-12T16:19:39.799+09:00Quotations about WeedsA weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson<br /><br /><br />A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br /><br />But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie<br /><br /><br />Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry<br /><br /><br />I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903<br /><br /><br />But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle<br /><br /><br />Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere<br /><br /><br />They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994<br /><br /><br />We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935<br /><br /><br />I learn more about God<br />From weeds than from roses;<br />Resilience springing<br />Through the smallest chink of hope<br />In the absolute of concrete....<br />~Phillip Pulfrey, "Weeds," Perspectives, www.originals.net<br /><br /><br />First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson,<a href="http://www.howtomatter.com/">www.howtomatter.com</a><br /><br /><br />A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Roses are red,<br />Violets are blue;<br />But they don't get around<br />Like the dandelions do.<br />~Slim Acres<br /><br /><br />Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ~A.A. Milne<br /><br /><br />One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. ~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881<br /><br /><br />May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Free Weeds<br />U Pick 'Em<br />~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973<br /><br /><br />A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller<br /><br /><br />When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare<br /><br /><br />A man of words and not of deeds<br />Is like a garden full of weeds<br />And when the weeds begin to grow<br />It's like a garden full of snow...<br />~John Fletcher, part of a nursery rhyme (Thanks, Paul!)<br /><br /><br />Weed 'em and reap. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb<br /><br /><br />What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878<br /><br /><br />He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br /><br />A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. ~Francis Bacon<br /><br /><br />Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da VinciAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-66355893140174952822012-11-12T16:19:00.002+09:002012-11-12T16:19:09.458+09:00Quotations about WeatherSunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin<br /><br /><br />A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner<br /><br /><br />Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes<br /><br /><br />Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol<br /><br /><br />The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young<br /><br /><br />To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana<br /><br /><br />Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br /><br />It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979<br /><br /><br />Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin<br /><br /><br />Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard<br /><br /><br />There is no season such delight can bring<br />As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.<br />~William Browne<br /><br /><br />I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley<br /><br /><br />Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Some people feel the rain — others just get wet. ~Roger Miller, also sometimes quoted as "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."<br /><br /><br />No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,<br />Watches beside me in this windy place.<br />~Edna St. Vincent Millay<br /><br /><br />Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br /><br />When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff<br /><br /><br />Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil<br /><br /><br />A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson<br /><br /><br />There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo<br /><br /><br />Tell me how many beads there are<br />In a silver chain<br />Of evening rain,<br />Unravelled from the tumbling main...<br />~Thomas Lovell Beddoes<br /><br /><br />The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley<br /><br /><br />The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed<br /><br /><br />There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard<br /><br /><br />For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903<br /><br /><br />When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. ~Lady Bird Johnson<br /><br /><br />The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons<div>
<br /><br />The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley<br /><br /><br />Snowflakes are kisses from heaven. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin<br /><br /><br />All was silent as before -<br />All silent save the dripping rain.<br />~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br /><br />Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII<br /><br /><br />The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings<br /><br /><br />There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright<br /><br /><br />The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers<br /><br /><br />What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen<br /><br /><br />What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,<br />I have forgotten, and what arms have lain<br />Under my head till morning; but the rain<br />Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh<br />Upon the glass and listen for reply...<br />~Edna St. Vincent Millay<br /><br /><br />The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion<br /><br /><br />The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLIII<br /><br /><br />Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. ~Dave Beard<br /><br /><br />I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley<br /><br /><br />Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore<br /><br /><br />Lo, sifted through the winds that blow,<br />Down comes the soft and silent snow,<br />White petals from the flowers that grow<br />In the cold atmosphere.<br />~George W. Bungay<br /><br /><br />Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. ~William Hamilton Gibson<br /><br /><br />Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Hugh Kieffer<br /><br /><br />Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. ~Vista M. Kelly<br /><br /><br />On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window. ~Dan Spencer<br /><br /><br />The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!" ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit<br /><br /><br />Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ~Earl Wilson<br /><br /><br />The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. ~Lama Willa Miller<br /><br /><br />I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. ~Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010<br /><br /><br />The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir<br /><br /><br />Through woods and mountain passes<br />The winds, like anthems, roll.<br />~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br /><br />Louder and louder the deep thunder rolled, as through the myriad halls of some vast temple in the sky; fiercer and brighter came the lightning; more and more heavily the rain poured down. The eye, partaking of the quickness of the flashing light, saw in its every gleam a multitude of objects which it could not see at steady noon in fifty times that period.... in a trembling, vivid, flickering instant, everything was clear and plain: then came a flash of red into the yellow light; a change to blue; a brightness so intense that there was nothing else but light; and then the deepest and profoundest darkness. ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII<br /><br /><br />Whether the weather be fine,<br />Whether the weather be not,<br />Whether the weather be cold,<br />Whether the weather be hot,<br />We'll weather the weather,<br />Whatever the whether,<br />Whether we like it or not<br />~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift<br /><br /><br />Every bolt, as it burst with the roar of a cannon, seemed to awaken a series of distinct echoes on every side, and you heard them bandied from crag to crag as they rushed along the wadis; while they swept like a whirlwind among the higher mountains, becoming faint as some mighty peak intervened, and bursting again with undiminished volume through some yawning cleft, till the very ground trembled with the concussion. Such sounds it is impossible ever to forget; it seemed as if the whole mountains of the peninsula were answering one another in a chorus of the deepest bass. Ever and anon a flash of lightning dispelled the pitchy darkness, and lit up the tent as if it had been day; then, after the interval of a few seconds, came the peal of thunder, bursting like a shell to scatter its echoes to the four quarters of the heavens, and overpowering for a moment the loud howlings of the wind. ~Robert Walter Stewart, The Tent and the Khan: A Journey to Sinai and Palestine, "Chapter IV: Feiran to Ghebel Mousa," 30th January 1854<br /><br /><br />One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ~John Steinbeck<br /><br /><br />Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. ~Bill Watterson<br /><br /><br />Out of the bosom of the Air,<br />Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,<br />Over the woodlands brown and bare,<br />Over the harvest-fields forsaken,<br />Silent, and soft, and slow<br />Descends the snow.<br />~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br /><br />Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book<br /><br /><br />Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. ~C.H. Spurgeon<br /><br /><br />Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. Wind is an emotional rush because emotions are rushing by. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />Slowly at last the heavy clouds, charged with the welcome water, roll up from seaward; the air grows sultry and still; the creatures of the grove and jungle keep their coverts, as if expectant, like the surface of the soil; there is a hush over all things, as though nature herself were faint; till presently the lightning flashes and the thunder rattles, and down, as if really from heaven and from the hand of God, comes the thick and fresh rain. Then there rises from the ground a cool and penetrating aroma, the scent of the dry soil saturated... ~Daily Telegraph, quoted in A Cyclopædia of Nature Teachings, 1892<br /><br /><br />It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle<br /><br /><br />The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings,South Moon Under<br /><br /><br />Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. ~William Sharp<br /><br /><br />For months we have had scarcely any rain.... The grass and the trees have seemed to remain at a standstill, as though waiting for something. When I pour waterpot after waterpot of water about the roots of some favourite or needy plant, the water runs off the caked ground... seemingly, without quenching the fever-thirst of the earth.... [T]he beauty of rain is a thing often missed, I think, even by those who do keep, as they pass through this world, a keen eye for the Creator's thoughts, embodied in beauty about them.... ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863<br /><br /><br />But the true lover of rain.... has a deep inner enjoyment of the rain, as rain, and his sense of its beauty drinks it in as thirstily as does the drinking earth. It refreshes and cools his heart and brain; he longs to go forth into the fields, to feel its steady stream, to scent its fragrance; to stand under some heavy-foilaged chestnut-tree, and hear the rushing music on the crowded leaves. ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863<br /><br /><br />And at last it comes. You hear a patter... you see a leaf here and there bob and blink about you; you feel a spot on your face, on your hand. And then the gracious rain comes, gathering its forces—steady, close, abundant. Lean out of window, and watch, and listen. How delicious!... the verandah beneath losing its scattered spots in a sheet of luminous wet; and, never pausing, the close, heavy, soft-rushing noise... ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863<br /><br /><br />The crisp drenching rustle from the dry foliage of the perceptibly grateful trees... the little plants, in speechless ecstasy, receiving cupful after cupful into the outspread leaves, that silently empty their gracious load, time after time, into the still expecting roots, and open their hands still for more. ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863<br /><br /><br />[Rain] is beautiful when it comes hurried and passionate, fleeing from the storm wind, hurled, like a volley of small musketry, against your streaming panes.... It is beautiful in the Midsummer, when it comes in light, soft showers, or, more in earnest, accompanied with thunder-music, straight and heavy; when, as the poet says—<br />"Rolling as in sleep,<br />Low thunders bring the mellow rain."<br />~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863, quoting Alfred Tennyson<br /><br /><br />It is beautiful when it rains far away in the distance, the bright sun shining on the mound on which you stand, and only a few guerilla drops heralding the approach of the shower towards you. ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863<br /><br /><br />Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />O the snow, the beautiful snow,<br />Filling the sky and earth below;<br />Over the house-tops, over the street,<br />Over the heads of the people you meet,<br />Dancing, flirting, skimming along.<br />~James W. Watson<br /><br /><br />Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. ~Edward Abbey<br /><br /><br />There are times when, the elements being in unusual commotion, those who are bent on daring enterprises, or agitated by great thoughts, whether of good or evil, feel a mysterious sympathy with the tumult of nature, and are roused into corresponding violence. In the midst of thunder, lightning, and storm, many tremendous deeds have been committed; men, self-possessed before, have given a sudden loose to passions they could no longer control. The demons of wrath and despair have striven to emulate those who ride the whirlwind and direct the storm; and man, lashed into madness with the roaring winds and boiling waters, has become for the time as wild and merciless as the elements themselves. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge<br /><br /><br />There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore<br /><br /><br />The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. ~Joseph Wood Krutch<br /><br /><br />The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad<br /><br /><br />It had been gradually getting overcast, and now the sky was dark and lowering, save where the glory of the departing sun piled up masses of gold and burning fire, decaying embers of which gleamed here and there through the black veil, and shone redly down upon the earth. The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down, carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm-clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky. Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant. ~Charles Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop<br /><br /><br />There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard<br /><br /><br />Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." ~Maya Angelou<br /><br /><br />The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas.... ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp<br /><br /><br />New-England weather - it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done. ~Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, commonly attributed to Mark Twain as "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."(Thanks, Garson O'Toole of <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-4581783341458828442012-11-12T16:17:00.002+09:002012-11-12T16:17:48.355+09:00Quotations about WaterWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732<br /><br /><br />Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb<br /><br /><br />A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth<br /><br /><br />A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard<br /><br /><br />The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad<br /><br /><br />Never a ship sails out of the bay<br />But carries my heart as a stowaway.<br />~Roselle Mercier Montgomery, The Stowaway<br /><br /><br />Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986<br /><br /><br />I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen<br /><br /><br />Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb<br /><br /><br />Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley<br /><br /><br />For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),<br />It's always our self we find in the sea.<br />~e.e. cummings<br /><br /><br />Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson<br /><br /><br />The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Though inland far we be,<br />Our souls have sight of that immortal sea<br />Which brought us hither.<br />~William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality<br /><br /><br />Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce<br /><br /><br />I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"<br /><br /><br />The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad<br /><br /><br />Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio<br /><br /><br />Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal<br /><br /><br />My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves. ~Mike Dolan, <a href="http://www.hawaiianlife.com/">www.hawaiianlife.com</a><br /><br /><br />The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies<br /><br /><br />"Take your shoes off," purred the ocean waves. ~Dr. SunWolf,<a href="http://professorsunwolf.com/">professorsunwolf.com</a><br /><br /><br />In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran<br /><br /><br />Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. ~Charles Dickens, David Copperfield<br /><br /><br />And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face<br />Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.<br />~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity<br /><br /><br />Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri<br /><br /><br />Life is like sea-water; it never gets quite sweet until it is drawn up into heaven. ~J.P. Richter<br /><br /><br />Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. ~Herman Melville, Moby Dick<br /><br /><br />Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! ~B.E. Marshall<br /><br /><br />I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt<br /><br /><br />There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell<br /><br /><br />The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br /><br /><br />A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach<br /><br /><br />He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert<br /><br /><br />The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship<br /><br /><br />Did you ever feel the tongue dry, the lips parched, and the throat feverish, and then, bringing a goblet filled with pure water to your lips, do you remember the sensation as it trickled over your tongue and gurgled down your throat? Was it not a luxury?... Here is a beverage brewed for us by our Heavenly Father—brewed, too, in beautiful places.... He brews pure water, far away on the mountain top, whose granite peak glitters like gold in the sunlight; away again, on the wide wild sea, where the hurricane howls its mournful melody, and the storm sends back the chorus, sweeping the march of God! ~John Bartholomew Gough, English-born U.S. temperance orator (1817-1886)<br /><br /><br />There brews He beautiful water! And beautiful it always is! You see it glistening in the dewdrop; you hear it singing in the summer rain; you see it sparkling in the ice gem when the trees seem loaded with rich jewels!... dancing in the hailstorm, leaping, foaming, dashing...! See how it weaves a golden gauze for the setting sun, and a silvery tissue for the midnight moon! ~John Bartholomew Gough, English-born U.S. temperance orator (1817-1886)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-68244775362590882442012-11-12T16:17:00.000+09:002012-11-12T16:17:05.613+09:00Quotations about WarGive me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner<br /><br /><br />War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell<br /><br /><br />It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs<br /><br /><br />I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam<br /><br /><br />The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein<br /><br /><br />The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman<br /><br /><br />"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ~James Morrow<br /><br /><br />Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter<br /><br /><br />All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon<br /><br /><br />If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells, Things to Come (the "film story"), Part III, adapted from his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, spoken by the character John Cabal (Thanks Bill!)<br /><br /><br />A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb<br /><br /><br />The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley<br /><br /><br />Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953<br /><br /><br />The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up<br /><br /><br />What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864<br /><br /><br />Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ~Colman McCarthy<br /><br /><br />Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner<br /><br /><br />Draft beer, not people. ~Attributed to Bob Dylan<br /><br /><br />The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br /><br />War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ~John F. Kennedy<br /><br /><br />In Flanders fields the poppies grow<br />Between the crosses, row on row,<br />That mark our place, and in the sky,<br />The larks, still bravely singing, fly,<br />Scarce heard amid the guns below.<br />~John McCrae<br /><br /><br />What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978<br /><br /><br />Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway<br /><br /><br />War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert<br /><br /><br />You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin<br /><br /><br />You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~David Lloyd George<br /><br /><br />Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg<br /><br /><br />In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~José Narosky<br /><br /><br />We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ~James Russell Lowell<br /><br /><br />If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. ~Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War<br /><br /><br />I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973<br /><br /><br />War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin<br /><br /><br />War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift<br /><br /><br />It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire, War<br /><br /><br />We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. ~Jello Biafra, quoted inThe Guardian, 3 November 2007<br /><br /><br />If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If....?"<br /><br /><br />I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985<br /><br /><br />[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov<br /><br /><br />The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick<br /><br /><br />All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><br />In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus (Thanks, Dan)<br /><br /><br />Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan<br /><br /><br />Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato<br /><br /><br />No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. ~Ambrose Bierce<br /><br /><br />Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. ~Robert Brault,<a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ~Napoleon Hill<br /><br /><br />We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick<br /><br /><br />If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens. ~Yoko Ono<br /><br /><br />Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~Bertrand Russell, attributed<br /><br /><br />It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern<br /><br /><br />I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern<br /><br /><br />When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre<br /><br /><br />The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945<br /><br /><br />You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. ~Albert Einstein<br /><br /><br />We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941<br /><br /><br />The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. ~Martin H. Fischer<br /><br /><br />They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway<br /><br /><br />The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. ~Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil<br /><br /><br />Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ~Norman Cousins<br /><br /><br />I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez<br /><br /><br />The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman<br /><br /><br />Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? ~Gregory Clark<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. ~Omar Bradley<br /><br /><br />War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~Thomas Mann<br /><br /><br />We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. ~Havelock Ellis<br /><br /><br />Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried<br /><br /><br />Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? ~Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"<br /><br /><br />The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ~John F. Kennedy<br /><br /><br />War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta<br /><br /><br />The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. ~Daniel Ha<br /><br /><br />If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. ~Louis Lecoin<br /><br /><br />War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland<br /><br /><br />War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried<br /><br /><br />War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. ~Thomas de Quincey<br /><br /><br />No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. ~Henry Kissinger<br /><br /><br />Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. ~Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948<br /><br /><br />I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis. ~Brett Butler<br /><br /><br />We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. ~Harriet Tubman<br /><br /><br />It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ~André Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938<br /><br /><br />Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4<br /><br /><br />The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland<br /><br /><br />I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ~Ulysses S. Grant<br /><br /><br />We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br /><br />In the name of peace<br />They waged the wars<br />Ain't they got no shame<br />~Nikki Giovanni<br /><br /><br />Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~Aldous Huxley<br /><br /><br />Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Declaration of Rights"<br /><br /><br />Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1955<br /><br /><br />To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. ~Michael Servetus<br /><br /><br />A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo<br /><br /><br />Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark<br /><br /><br />The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. ~Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967<br /><br /><br />War hath no fury like a noncombatant. ~Charles Edward Montague,Disenchantment<br /><br /><br />What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ~Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960<br /><br /><br />War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br /><br />The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career<br /><br /><br />Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold<br /><br /><br />If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II<br /><br /><br />Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.... In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience<br /><br /><br />Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover<br /><br /><br />A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. ~William Hooke<br /><br /><br />There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~Havelock Ellis<br /><br /><br />All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon<br /><br /><br />War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. ~Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)<br /><br /><br />Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ~Alice Thomas Ellis<br /><br /><br />Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979<br /><br /><br />War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. ~Robert Hall<br /><br /><br />Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ~Stuart Chase<br /><br /><br />Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. ~Pieter Geyl,Debates With Historians<br /><br /><br />Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ~Holly Near<br /><br /><br />The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein<br /><br /><br />O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"<br /><br /><br />If you shoot one person you are a murderer. If you kill a couple persons you are a gangster. If you are a crazy statesman and send millions to their deaths you are a hero. ~Author unknown, 1939 newspaper, see also "If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that's only statistics" attribued to Joseph Stalin and "a single man killed is a misfortune, a million is a statistic" attributed to an anonymous Frenchman, 1948 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of<a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/">quoteinvestigator.com</a>!)<br /><br /><br />Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. ~Lucy Ellman<br /><br /><br />The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827<br /><br /><br />War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill<br /><br /><br />The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~Louis Simpson<br /><br /><br />The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton<br /><br /><br />The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action<br /><br /><br />You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929<br /><br /><br />Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. ~James Frederick Green<br /><br /><br />I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? ~Thomas Jefferson<br /><br /><br />War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~Charles Evans Hughes<br /><br /><br />War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. ~William Cowper<br /><br /><br />Borders are scratched across the hearts of men<br />By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,<br />And when the borders bleed we watch with dread<br />The lines of ink across the map turn red.<br />~Marya Mannes, Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times, 1959<br /><br /><br />War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br /><br /><br />They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. ~Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944<br /><br /><br />I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. ~Georges Clemenceau<br /><br /><br />As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. ~Edward Gibbon<br /><br /><br />There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams<br /><br /><br />War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill? ~Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau<br /><br /><br />The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"<br /><br /><br />I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick<br /><br /><br />It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ~Fred Woodworth<br /><br /><br />In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant "Agent Orange" are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match, No. 79<br /><br /><br />A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ~Herbert V. Prochnow<br /><br /><br />Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. ~S.L.A. Marshall<br /><br /><br />You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ~Franklin P. Jones, referring to the atomic bombAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-31007127773402666122012-11-12T16:15:00.006+09:002012-11-12T16:15:45.358+09:00Quotations about WalkingIf you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon<br /><br /><br />A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White<br /><br /><br />I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938<br /><br /><br />Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright<br /><br /><br />I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan<br /><br /><br />My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley<br /><br /><br />When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens<br /><br /><br />After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan<br /><br /><br />I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan<br /><br /><br />No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~Cyril Connolly<br /><br /><br />Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around. ~Gregory McNamee<br /><br /><br />A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir<br /><br /><br />Thoughts come clearly while one walks. ~Thomas Mann<br /><br /><br />In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~John Muir<br /><br /><br />Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard<br /><br /><br />Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard<br /><br /><br />You need special shoes for hiking — and a bit of a special soul as well. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs<br /><br /><br />The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841<br /><br /><br />Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," <a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/bk-hp.html">Harry Potter</a> and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody<br /><br /><br />People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams<br /><br /><br />How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967<br /><br /><br />Make your feet your friend. ~J.M. Barrie<br /><br /><br />I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. ~Amy Yasbeck<br /><br /><br />He who limps is still walking. ~Stanislaw J. Lec<div>
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Davies<br /><br /><br />[We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. ~John Muir<br /><br /><br />Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/">www.robertbrault.com</a><br /><br /><br />Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker<br /><br /><br />In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. ~Bruce Chatwin,In Patagonia, 1977<br /><br /><br />The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff<br /><br /><br />We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall<br /><br /><br />Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet<br /><br /><br />The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. ~Theodor W. Adorno<br /><br /><br />An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. ~O.A. Battista<br /><br /><br />If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down. ~Author Unknown, "Prayer of the Tired Walker"<br /><br /><br />I have been one acquainted with the night.<br />I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.<br />I have outwalked the furthest city light.... ~Robert Frost<br /><br /><br />There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe<br /><br /><br />I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. ~Will Rogers<br /><br /><br />After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb<br /><br /><br />If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"<br /><br /><br />As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible. ~Bill Vaughan<br /><br /><br />It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br />Walking is also an ambulation of mind. ~Gretel Ehrlich<br /><br /><br />Walking is good for solving problems — it's like the feet are little psychiatrists. ~Terri Guillemets<br /><br /><br />My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres<br /><br /><br />I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes<br />my rage, forgetting everything.<br />~Pablo Neruda, translated<br /><br /><br />I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces. ~Wendie Malick<br /><br /><br />If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965<br /><br /><br />The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot. ~J.B. Yeats<br /><br /><br />I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. ~Henry David Thoreau<br /><br /><br />The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. ~Mark Twain<br /><br /><br />Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee. ~Demetri Martin<br /><br /><br />[Hiking] is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. ~Jamie Luner<br /><br /><br />Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><br />The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~Frederick L. KnowlesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-6998016697327288312012-10-24T16:54:00.003+09:002012-10-24T16:54:24.587+09:00Quotations about Virtues <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">Virtue
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the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a
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Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes<br />
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Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by. ~André Maurois, <i>Ariel</i>, 1924<br />
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Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn<br />
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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh<br />
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The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry<br />
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire<br />
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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. ~Martin H. Fischer<br />
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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg<br />
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. ~Robert S. Lynd<br />
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb<br />
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Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather<br />
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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect,
might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~Augustus
William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, <i>Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers</i>, 1827<br />
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Ts'ai Ken T'an<br />
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~George Orwell<br />
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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a
million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and
carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of
little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you
are neither a hero or a saint. ~Henry Ward Beecher<br />
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell<br />
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Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~Author Unknown<br />
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What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ~Christopher Fry<br />
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~La Rochefoucauld, <i>Maxims</i>, 1665</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-13904040513950136182012-10-24T16:54:00.000+09:002012-10-24T16:54:01.293+09:00Quotations about Violence <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">All
violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing
that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those
people deserve to be punished. ~Marshall Rosenberg<br />
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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not
channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. ~Sam
Peckinpah<br />
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We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the
certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and
outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it
still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar<br />
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb<br />
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton<br />
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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ~John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, 1667<br />
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There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible
violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used....
Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy,
and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the
violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake
never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they
thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same
can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. ~Gil
Bailie<br />
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~John Frederick Boyes<br />
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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. ~Daniel Webster<br />
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In violence we forget who we are. ~Mary McCarthy<br />
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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of
love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality
and respect. ~Manitonquat<br />
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you
count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~Dave
Barry<br />
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It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one
that says "To whom it may concern." ~Anonymous Belfast resident, quoted
in <i>London Guardian</i>, 1991<br />
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I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have
bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should
have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I
should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest
of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. ~Scott Adams<br />
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I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch,
I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant,
cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if
you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, <a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/mash.html" style="text-decoration: none;">M*A*S*H</a>, "Officer of the Day"<br />
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln<br />
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur
together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them
apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and
the police were forced to resort to sex." ~Dick Cavett, 1978<br />
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the
name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and
create a race that can understand. ~George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and
Cleopatra"<br />
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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and
capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but
similars that breed their kind. ~George Bernard Shaw, <i>Maxims for Revolutionists</i><br />
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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max Stirner<br />
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Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair.... ~Stuart Brown<br />
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private
citizens will occasionally kill theirs. ~Elbert Hubbard<br />
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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what
beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that
quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and
powder-houses. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by
physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. ~Henry C. Wright, <i>The Liberator</i>, 7 April 1837<br />
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed
himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills
to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he
kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. ~Josef de
Maistre<br />
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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?
One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or
nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is
just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to
agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly
innocent. But how many does it take? ~Adin Ballou, <i>The Non-Resistant</i>, 5 February 1845<br />
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to
put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ~Gandhi<br />
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but
you refuse to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
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Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus<br />
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In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. ~Cesar Chavez<br />
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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. ~Jack Nicholson<br />
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~Gandhi<br />
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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-69981817478580905072012-10-24T16:53:00.001+09:002012-10-24T16:53:34.897+09:00Quotations about Vices <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~W. MacNeile Dixon<br />
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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, <i>The Second Neurotic's Notebook</i>, 1966<br />
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. ~Holbrook Jackson<br />
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination
sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor
the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder<br />
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It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln<br />
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Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn<br />
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb<br />
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There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good
sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
~Woody Allen<br />
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The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you
shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~Salvador de Madariaga<br />
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, <i>Aphorisms in the English Review</i>, 1914<br />
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, <i>Journals</i>, 1836<br />
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld<br />
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, <i>On Education</i>, 1926<br />
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot<br />
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Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that
resemble both their parents. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, <i>Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections</i><br />
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, <i>The Neurotic's Notebook</i>, 1960<br />
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the
poor and lowly, for crimes. ~Lady Marguerite Blessington</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-3205715826724790422012-10-24T16:51:00.000+09:002012-10-24T16:51:01.217+09:00Quotations about Vegetarianism <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner<br />
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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the
rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey
Diamond<br />
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the
victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, <i>Note-Books</i>, 1912<br />
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the
Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively,
intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection...
nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead
and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
~Berke Breathed, <i>Bloom County Babylon</i><br />
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney<br />
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the
ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens
but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it
furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously
devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of
bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with
vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of
every obstacle. ~Henry David Thoreau<br />
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How can you eat anything with eyes? ~Will Kellogg<br />
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the
wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile
accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people"
you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ~Neal Barnard<br />
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Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my
fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner.
~Lynda Montgomery<br />
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ~James Cromwell<br />
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If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. ~k.d. lang<br />
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make
the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies,
though not our own. ~Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
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Being a meat eater is really expensive, even if you don't count the cost of chemo. ~<a href="http://www.snargleplexon.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Snargleplexon.com</a><br />
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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of
eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will
contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by
mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small
traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of
the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. ~George
Bernard Shaw<br />
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in <i>You Said a Mouthful</i> edited by Ronald D. Fuchs<br />
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with
wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British
Medical Association, 1930<br />
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Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ~Ambrose Bierce, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i><br />
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For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal
calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice
of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white
liquid - milk. ~Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, <i>The Vegan Sourcebook</i>, 1998<br />
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Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~Jim Davis, "Garfield" (<i>Please note: In its original context, this is NOT about vegetarianism</i>)<br />
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Vegetarians taste better. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter." ~Andy Rooney</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown<br />
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If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? ~Author Unknown<br />
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ~Rita Rudner<br />
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. ~Finley Peter Dunne<br />
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Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. ~Gerald Lieberman<br />
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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Mr. Spock, <i>Star Trek</i>, "Wolf in the Fold"<br />
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper<br />
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Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the
line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~Bob Ekstrom<br />
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Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~Ingrid Newkirk<br />
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I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God
knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.
~Alex Poulos<br />
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We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang<br />
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Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly<br />
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman<br />
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown<br />
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A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? ~Author Unknown<br />
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I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ~Oscar Wilde<br />
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There is no substitute for mother's milk. ~Martin H. Fischer<br />
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I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more
plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your
mouth. ~Bernie Wilke, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, <i>The Vegan Sourcebook</i>, 1998<br />
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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless<br />
Christmas dinner's dark and blue<br />
When you stop and try to see it<br />
From the turkey's point of view.<br />
~Shel Silverstein, "Point of View"<br />
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All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no
meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to
impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt
Groening, <i>The Simpsons</i>, spoken by the character Homer Simpson<br />
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Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We
live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an
early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such
as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder
of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci<br />
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in
its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the
savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, <i>Walden</i>, 1854<br />
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of
discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful
and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other
condition, they would relinquish it forever. ~W.E.H. Lecky<br />
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we
expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that
it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much
better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves
are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot
really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme
distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make
you think a lot. ~Kate Bush<br />
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I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat
it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it
processed for you. ~Margi Clark<br />
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"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only,
but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the
human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. ~Leo Tolstoy<br />
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in
good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a
different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all
the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of
American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be
slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never
forget. ~Cloris Leachman<br />
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and
sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits
of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart
to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard;
and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in
fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath
Tagore<br />
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Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from
flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what
state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore
and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth
tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment
the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.
How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and
hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the
stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste,
which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums
from mortal wounds? ~Plutarch<br />
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary
preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion,
and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite
intolerable loathing and disgust. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, <i>Queen Mab</i> Notes<br />
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from
meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward
sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for
squeamishness. ~Bill Griffith, <i>Griffith Observatory</i> comic strip, 1977<br />
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of
the human body. ~Mahatma Gandhi<br />
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A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen:
"Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every
now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're
up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes
they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've
worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones.
They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel
really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to
it that it doesn't mean anything." ~<i>Slaughterhouse</i> 1997<br />
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I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and
the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are
forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. ~Author Unknown <i>(Thanks, Eric)</i><br />
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Think of me tonite<br />
For that which you savor<br />
Did it give you something real,<br />
or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?<br />
~Wayne K. Tolson, from "Food Forethought"<br />
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert
Einstein<br />
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Vegans plant goodwill. ~Terri Guillemets<br />
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The things you did with that cucumber in college does not make you a vegetarian. ~Author Unknown<br />
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<br />
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I
saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not
bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe.
I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav
Nijinsky<br />
<br />
<br />
Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal
you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a
cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead,
would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the
emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for
your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to
waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? ~Anonymous</span> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-76170657169279974712012-10-24T16:50:00.003+09:002012-10-24T16:50:19.143+09:00Quotations about Vanity <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">Vanity
is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired:
even I who write this, and you who read this. ~Blaise Pascal<br />
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand<br />
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~Thomas Wolfe<br />
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. ~Benjamin Franklin<br />
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ~Mark Twain, <i>Notebook</i>, 1898<br />
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and
is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing
would exist. ~Antonio Porchia, <i>Voces</i>, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin<br />
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Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am
in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase
by it. ~John Adams<br />
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton<br />
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others.
Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself
only with the idea that God may have of you. ~Miguel De Unamuno<br />
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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and
which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in
life. ~Lord Chesterfield<br />
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad<br />
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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ~Henri Bergson<br />
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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others;
it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ~Louis Kronenberger<br />
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained
like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~Logan Pearsall Smith<br />
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ~Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;<br />
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.<br />
~Robert Browning<br />
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~François de la Rochefoucauld<br />
<br />
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Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it
themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being
persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to
others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many
cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for
his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~Benjamin Franklin</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-64456041324036018622012-10-24T16:49:00.003+09:002012-10-24T16:49:50.225+09:00Quotations about Vacations <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard<br />
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A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~Morris Fishbein<br />
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ~Earl Wilson<br />
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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with
discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ~Author Unknown<br />
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben<br />
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is
no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret
Laurence<br />
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I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off
when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week
in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to
begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot
determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies<br />
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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full
month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~William James<br />
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We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off
our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our
belongings. ~Erma Bombeck<br />
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Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. ~Author Unknown<br />
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The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ~Author Unknown<br />
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not
have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne
Morrow Lindbergh<br />
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A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. ~Sam Ewing<br />
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College is the longest vacation you will ever take. ~ Dan Indante and Karl Marks<br />
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Too much work, and no vacation,<br />
Deserves at least a small libation.<br />
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,<br />
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.<br />
~Oscar Wilde<br />
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No vacation goes unpunished. ~Karl Hakkarainen<br />
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Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. ~Mason Cooley<br />
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Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle<br />
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard<br />
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There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. ~Robert Benchley<br />
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Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge
with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.
~S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman, <i>Monkey Business</i><br />
<br />
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what
we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do
with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards
and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-79387066128340802532012-10-24T16:48:00.002+09:002012-10-24T16:48:35.434+09:00Quotations about Unemployment <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman<br />
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card<br />
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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett<br />
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<br />
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest
sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~Thomas
Carlyle<br />
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ~William Shakespeare<br />
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A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial
of which you can have no conception. ~George Bernard Shaw<br />
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The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. ~Slappy White<br />
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[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~Jane Addams, 1910<br />
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ~Cato the Elder<br />
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.<br />
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An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government
economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~Mason Cooley<br />
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and
exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
~William Henry Beveridge<br />
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put
men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
~John F. Kennedy<br />
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When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~Paige Rense<br />
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ~Jesse Jackson<br />
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I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people
who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives
structure and discipline to life. ~Bill Clinton<br />
<br />
<br />
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ~Gerald Barzan<br />
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<br />
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ~Robert Farrar Capon, "Being Let Go," <i>New York Times</i>, 5 August 1984</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-12520698281261367532012-10-22T16:14:00.004+09:002012-10-22T16:14:36.336+09:00Quotations about Twins <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings<br />
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It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown<br />
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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle
are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
~Arthur Conan Doyle, <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i><br />
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A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Twice as much to love, two blessings from above. ~Author Unknown<br />
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God touched our hearts so deep inside, our special blessing multiplied. ~Author Unknown<br />
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb<br />
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Life is two-riffic with twins. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ~Herman Melville, <i>Redburn. His First Voyage</i>, 1849<br />
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...So we grew together<br />
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,<br />
But yet an union in partition,<br />
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...<br />
~William Shakespeare, <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i><br />
<i>(Note: This isn't actually about twins)</i><br />
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You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:<br />
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.<br />
~William Shakespeare, <i>The Comedy of Errors</i><br />
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins. ~Victoria Billings<br />
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Hearts entwined<br />
Twenty fingers, twenty toes,<br />
two sweet babies with cheeks of rose.<br />
Born on the same day, two gifts from above,<br />
lives entwined, two babies to love.<br />
~Author Unknown<br />
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When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for
twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. ~Steven Wright<br />
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Twin one, twin too! ~Author Unknown<br />
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What's cuter than one baby?<br />
A precious set of twins!<br />
With matching little outfits -<br />
And matchless little grins...<br />
With twice as many babies,<br />
How very busy you will be -<br />
Just think of all the loving<br />
They'll bring your family.<br />
~Author Unknown<br />
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. ~Lord Byron<br />
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Two faces to wash, and four dirty hands<br />
Two insistent voices, making demands<br />
Twice as much crying, when things go wrong<br />
The four eyes closing, with slumber song<br />
Twice as many garments, blowing on the line<br />
Two cherubs in the wagon, soaking up sunshine<br />
Work I do for twins, naturally comes double<br />
But four arms to hug me, repay all my trouble.<br />
~Author Unknown<br />
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When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" ~Rodney Dangerfield<br />
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Not double trouble, but twice blessed. ~Author Unknown<br />
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There's two to wash, two to dry;<br />
There's two who argue, two who cry....<br />
There's two to kiss, two to hug;<br />
And best of all, there's two to love!<br />
~Author Unknown<br />
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I may be a twin but I'm one of a kind. ~Author Unknown<br />
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We came into the world like brother and brother;<br />
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.<br />
~William Shakespeare, <i>The Comedy of Errors</i><br />
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07424177429557669861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316800090551063802.post-39300727996262549002012-10-22T16:14:00.000+09:002012-10-22T16:14:03.043+09:00Quotations about Truth <span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">God
offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which
you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley<br />
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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark<br />
But even so, wise dogs don't bark.<br />
Only mongrels make it hard<br />
For the milkman to come up the yard.<br />
~Christopher Morley, <i>Dogs Don't Bark at the Milkman</i><br />
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~Thomas Jefferson, <i>Notes on Virginia</i><br />
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<br />
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to
hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of
being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her
purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when
held close enough to the heart. ~Peter Altenberg<br />
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James<br />
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. ~W. MacNeile Dixon<br />
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There is no god higher than truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi<br />
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, <i>Voces</i>, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin<br />
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too
complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West<br />
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It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~Werner Heisenberg, <i>Physics and Philosophy</i><br />
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Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer<br />
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When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do
not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~William
Blake<br />
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Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~Shoseki<br />
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Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed<br />
<br />
<br />
Truth is after all a moving target<br />
Hairs to split,<br />
And pieces that don't fit<br />
How can anybody be enlightened?<br />
Truth is after all so poorly lit.<br />
~Neil Peart, <i>Turn the Page</i><br />
<i>(Thank you, Ryan)</i><br />
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. ~Charles Caleb Colton<br />
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life
he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde<br />
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. ~Antonio Porchia, <i>Voces</i>, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin<br />
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Truth breeds hatred. ~Bias of Priene, <i>Maxims</i><br />
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dōgen Zenji<br />
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One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now
it's too late, because the truth has changed. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;">People always think something's <i>all</i> true. ~J.D. Salinger, <a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/bk-cr.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><i>Catcher in the Rye</i></a><br />
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. ~Tim O'Brien, <i>The Things They Carried</i><br />
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you
may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and
full at evening. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, <i>The Professor at the Breakfast Table</i><br />
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy<br />
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Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the
immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a
drop of prussic acid. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />
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Seek truth and you will find a path. ~Frank Slaughter<br />
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. ~Alphonse de Lamartine, "Marseillaise of Peace," 1841<br />
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ~Jean-Paul Sartre<br />
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Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. ~Author Unknown<br />
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There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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Truth is a great flirt. ~Franz Liszt<br />
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<br />
I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is
followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be
born to reëstablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer<br />
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~Denis Diderot<br />
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All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~George Bernard Shaw, <i>Annajanska</i>, 1919<br />
<br />
<br />
...Science and mathematics<br />
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,<br />
They never touch it: consider what an explosion<br />
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world<br />
If any mind for a moment touch truth.<br />
~Robinson Jeffers, "The Silent Shepherds," <i>The Beginning & the End</i><br />
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The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, <i>Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers</i>, 1827<br />
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ~Simone de Beauvoir<br />
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. ~W. Somerset Maugham, <i>The Summing Up</i>, 1938<br />
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When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~French Proverb<br />
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Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. ~Robert Brault, <a href="http://www.robertbrault.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.robertbrault.com</a><br />
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Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an <i>Idiota</i> or common person, <i>no great things</i>,
melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers,
fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only
how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with <i>Natura</i> her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, <i>Belvideres</i>, on a sudden the goddesse herself <i>Truth</i>
has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as
yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb<br />
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a
glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander
Solzhenitsyn<br />
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield<br />
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the
first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is
regarded as self-evident. ~Arthur Schopenhauer<br />
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There is no truth. There is only perception. ~Gustave Flaubert<br />
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If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. ~Stopford Brooke
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