Archives - October 2001 Quotes

Even paranoids have real enemies.
( authors: Delmore Schwartz )

There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it.
( author: Edith Wharton )

Those who have an excessive faith in their
theories or in their ideas are not only poorly
disposed to make discoveries, but they
also make very poor observations.
( authors: Claude Bernard )

It's far easier to forgive an enemy
after you got even with him.
( author: Olin Miller )

Some things you miss because they're so
tiny you overlook them. But some things you
don't see because they're so huge.
( authors: Robert Pirsig )

Did St Francis preach to the birds?
Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would
have done better to preach to the cats.
( authors: Rebecca West )

There are so many things that
we wish we had done yesterday, so few
that we feel like doing today.
( authors: Mignon McLaughlin )

Revenge is often like biting a
dog because the dog bit you.
( authors: Austin O'Malley )

Being Politically Correct means always
having to say you're sorry.
( authors: Charles Osgood )

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
( author: Frank Outlaw )

Neither can the wave that has
passed by be recalled, nor the hour
which has passed return again.
( author: Ovid )

The optimist thinks this is the
best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.
( authors: Julius Oppenheimer )

In each action we must look beyond the action at
our past, present, and future state,
and at others whom it affects,
and see the relations of all those things.
And then we shall be very cautious.
( authors: Blaise Pascal )

Those who expect to reap the
blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
( authors: Thomas Paine )

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and
mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
( authors: Joe Paterno )

Wars may be fought with weapons,
but they are won by men. It is the spirit
of men who follow and of the man
who leads that gains the victory.
( authors: Gen George S Patton )

True silence is the rest of the
mind; it is to the spirit what
sleep is to the body,
nourishment and refreshment.
( author: William Penn )

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
( authors: Gen Colin Powell )

The shortest period of time lies between
the minute you put some money away for a rainy day
and the unexpected arrival of rain.
( authors: Jane Bryant Quinn )

The secret of happy marriage is simple:
Just keep on being as polite to one another
as you are to your best friends.
( authors: Robert Quillen )

That laughter costs too much which is
purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
( authors: John Quinton )

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we
do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
( authors: Toni Morrison )

Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small
quantities calms men; in larger, heats
and irritates them and is attended
by fatal consequences in its excess.
( author: Walter Savage Landor )

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is
the human condition, there is no shame in being
wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
( authors: George Soros )

Don't let your will roar when
your power only whispers.
( author: Thomas Fuller )

Periods of wholesome laziness,
after days of energetic effort,
will wonderfully tone
up the mind and body.
( authors: Grenville Kleiser )

The more faithfully you listen to the voice
within you, the better you hear what is sounding
outside. And only he who listens can speak.
( authors: Dag Hammarskjold )