Quotes

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. - A.A. Milne The author of Winnie-the-Pooh was born on this day in 1882. ================================================================================ ====== Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. - Steve Martin ================================================================================ ====== Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some peopl e prefer books. - Julian Barnes The author of The Sense of an Ending was born on this day in 1946. ================================================================================ ====== Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all t he company, you please none: if you flatter only one or two, you affront the res t. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne ================================================================================ ====== All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin. - George Gordon Byron The author of Don Juan was born on this day in 1788. ================================================================================ ====== Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. - Edith Wharton The author of The Age of Innocence was born on this day in 1862. ================================================================================

====== When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it beco mes part of me. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very n arrow field. - Niels Bohr ================================================================================ ====== All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is rea lly a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I real ly get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writin g tunic. - Ellen DeGeneres The comedian and author of Seriously...I'm Kidding was born on this day in (26-J an-1958) ================================================================================ ====== Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound ================================================================================ ====== It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over nature. - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) ================================================================================ ======

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander The author of The Book of Three was born on this day in 30-Jan-1924. ================================================================================ ====== All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton The author of The Seven Storey Mountain was born on this day in 1915. ================================================================================ ====== Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes The American poet was born on this day in 1902. ================================================================================ ====== I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one. - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) ================================================================================ ======

With Women, we speak of "love", "duty", "right", "wrong", "pity", "hope", and ot her irrational and emotional conceptions, which have no existence, and the ficti on of which has no object except to control feminine exuberances. - Edwin Abbott (1838-1926) ================================================================================ ====== Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has bee n theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives?of approving of some and disapproving of others. - Charles Darwin (1809-1882) ================================================================================ ====== Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak a nd wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and h is vices. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== Think before you speak. Read before you think. - Fran Lebowitz ================================================================================ ====== Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. - Bertolt Brecht ================================================================================ ====== Maybe ever body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. - John Steinbeck

================================================================================ ====== We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron gratin g, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. - Jules Verne The author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was born on this day in (8-F eb-1828). ================================================================================ ====== Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wi se. - Samuel Lover ================================================================================ ====== A prisoner...is unfortunate in two ways because he has done something wrong and be cause he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, becau se of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would no t be sorry he had done wrong. - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) ================================================================================ ====== The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) ================================================================================ ====== Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid sl umbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ================================================================================ ====== No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness, or so good as drink. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

================================================================================ ====== An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== The fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful ca use of war. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== Of ambitions, it is less harmful, the ambition to prevail in great things, than that other, to appear in every thing; for that breeds confusion, and mars busine ss. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respe cted. - Charles Lamb ================================================================================ ====== Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. - Jane Yolen

================================================================================ ====== It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. - Chuck Palahniuk ================================================================================ ====== I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei The famous astronomer was born on 15-Feb-1564. ================================================================================ ====== To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is b ut a state of half enjoyment. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ================================================================================ ====== Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be si lent. - Victor Hugo The author of Les Miserables was born on this day in 26-Feb-1802. ================================================================================ ====== What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. - Richard Wilbur ================================================================================ ====== Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================

====== I do know my own mind...The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get a cquainted with it all over again. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ================================================================================ ====== It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne ================================================================================ ====== Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite a part from any fluctuations that went before consequences that are hardly ever conf ined to ourselves. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it can not be ignored. - Patricia A. McKillip ================================================================================ ====== The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have non e. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. - Cicero was one of the greatest thinkers of the Roman Empire.

He was a skilled orator, lawyer, politician, linguist, and writer Still today he is quoted for his clear prose and practical wisdom. ================================================================================ ====== If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) ================================================================================ ====== A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be f ulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere specta tors of life. - Ryunosuke Akutagawa ================================================================================ ====== You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yoursel f any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... - Dr. Seuss The author of Green Eggs and Ham was born on 1-Mar-1904. ================================================================================ ====== Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play i n face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison The author of The Invisible Man was born on this day in 1-Mar-1914. ================================================================================ ====== An American monkey,...after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men. - Charles Darwin (1809-1882) ================================================================================ ====== I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) ================================================================================ ====== Earth 's crammed with heaven...

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The author of Sonnets from the Portuguese was born on 6-Mar-1806. ================================================================================ ====== There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in purs uit of an idea. - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ================================================================================ ====== I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. - Chaim Potok ================================================================================ ====== Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom ================================================================================ ====== If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear, fear of the sort that a litt le cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and violence. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ================================================================================ ====== It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of y ou. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

- E.M. Forster ================================================================================ ====== The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are so often mean and so little that in decency they ought to be hid. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. - Philip Pullman ================================================================================ ====== May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fal l out. - Irish Blessing ================================================================================ ====== Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== Wealth should not be seized...for if a man take great wealth violently and perfo rce, or if he steal it through his tongue, as often happens when gain deceives m en's sense and dishonor tramples down honor, the gods soon blot him out and make that man's house low, and wealth attends him only for a little time. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you l east expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid The author of Metamorphoses was born on 20-March-43 B.C.E. ================================================================================ ====== The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. - George Eliot (1819-1880)

================================================================================ ====== For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti In honor of World Poetry Day. ================================================================================ ====== Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ================================================================================ ====== He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obl iges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. - Gabriel García Márquez ================================================================================ ====== Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. - Stéphane Mallarmé ================================================================================ ====== The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. - Kalu Uche Kalu ================================================================================ ====== Man sheds his grief as his skin sheds rain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of

beauty. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ================================================================================ ====== Pleasures are more beneficial than duties, because, like the quality of mercy, t hey are not strained, and they are twice blest. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ================================================================================ ====== I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do i t. - Pablo Picasso ================================================================================ ====== In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born on this day in (26-Mar-1874.) ================================================================================ ====== The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indiffere nce. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel ================================================================================ ====== I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, bu t once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healt hy life. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ================================================================================ ====== You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or al ong the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight ... You f ind your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ======

You ... know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections to each other: T here is nothing like it in this world. - Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) ================================================================================ ====== Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? - Lawrence Durrell ================================================================================ ====== When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. - Sean O'Casey The Irish playwright and author of Juno and the Paycock was born on 30-Mar-1880. ================================================================================ ====== April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain Happy April Fool's Day! ================================================================================ ====== Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard ================================================================================ ====== Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose;as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter a nd tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ================================================================================ ====== The man who is not loved hovers like a vulture over the sweetheart of others. - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) ================================================================================ ======

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every pl ace is the center of the world. - John Burroughs The American naturalist and author of Deep Woods was born on this day in 1837. ================================================================================ ====== You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was born on this day in 1928. ================================================================================ ====== The maxim is

Qui tacet consentire : the maxim of the law is

Silence gives consent .

================================================================================ ====== With a rapidly ageing population, it is also a good bet that meeting the demand for better health care will become a higher priority than maintaining military s pending. Like all the other great powers, China faces a choice of guns or walking sticks. ================================================================================ ====== Vanity thy name is woman. ================================================================================ ====== Let us not tire of a good work, hard though it be and wearisome; think of the ma ny little hearts that in their sorrow look to us for help. - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) ================================================================================ ====== The philosopher is like a mountaineer who has with difficulty climbed a mountain for the sake of the sunrise, and arriving at the top finds only fog; whereupon he wanders down again. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== No man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if da rkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more cong enial to our clayey part.

- Herman Melville (1819-1891) ================================================================================ ====== The world would do well to reflect, that injustice is in itself, to every genero us and properly constituted mind, an injury, of all others the most insufferable , the most torturing, and the most hard to bear. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness? - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart! - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ================================================================================ ====== There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== The question is not what you look at, but what you see

Henry David Thoreau

================================================================================ ====== It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate th at separates him from Elsewhere. - Lois Lowry ================================================================================ ====== Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

- William Wordsworth The author of Lyrical Ballads was born on 19-Apr-1770. ================================================================================ ====== Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. - Charles Baudelaire The author of Les Fleurs du Mal was born on 9-Apr-1821. ================================================================================ ====== Each moment is a place you've never been. - Mark Strand The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born on 11-Apr-1934. ================================================================================ ====== There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out. - Mae West ================================================================================ ====== The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell The author of Jurgen was born on 14-Apr-1879. ================================================================================ ====== Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turn ed skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci The Italian painter and engineer was born on 15-Apr-1452. ================================================================================ ====== Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes , and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) ================================================================================ ======

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. - Richard Hughes The author of A High Wind in Jamaica was born on 19-Apr-1900. ================================================================================ ====== Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. - Charlotte Brontë The author of Jane Eyre was born on 21-Apr-1816. ================================================================================ ====== Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoti ced. It is all part of the fairy tale. - Peter S. Beagle The author of The Last Unicorn was born on 21-Apr-1939. ================================================================================ ====== All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. - William Shakespeare The celebrated playwright and poet died on 23-Apr-1616 at the age of 52. ================================================================================ ====== At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice h e is the worst. - Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) ================================================================================ ====== A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

- UNCF Motto ================================================================================ ====== Dominus Illuminatio Mea (Latin) The Lord is my Light - Motto of the University Of Oxford ================================================================================ ====== A nation never falls but by suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== All that glisters is not gold - Shakespeare (From - The Merchant of Venice, 1596) ================================================================================ ====== He would always feel for her that impersonal admiration which is inspired by any thing very large, like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of Arizona. - P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) ================================================================================ ====== Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their ce nsure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush a ny half-formed desire to break away from the herd. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) ================================================================================ ====== Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have medio crity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller The author of Catch-22 was born on 1-May-1923.

================================================================================ ====== Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J. Sawyer The author of Flashforward was born on 29-Apr-1960. ================================================================================ ====== Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett The author of the Discworld series was born on 28-Apr-1948. ================================================================================ ====== Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. - Dodie Smith The author of I Capture the Castle was born on 3-May-1896. ================================================================================ ====== Cogito ergo sum

I think therefore I am.

- René Descartes ================================================================================ ====== Revenge proves its own executioner. - John Ford ================================================================================ ====== Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much ass orted vice or too much drink. - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ================================================================================ ====== My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are thr ee other people. - Orson Welles ================================================================================

====== I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ================================================================================ ====== The past is never where you think you left it. - Katherine Anne Porter ================================================================================ ====== I'm not young enough to know everything. - J.M. Barrie The author of Peter Pan was born on this day in 9-May-1860. ================================================================================ ====== That's the reason they're called lessons...because they lessen from day to day. - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) ================================================================================ ====== We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he s trikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. - Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) ================================================================================ ====== Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) ================================================================================ ====== If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; an d if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virt ue. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

================================================================================ ====== Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Awake, arise, or be forever fallen! - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. - Washington Irving (1783-1859) ================================================================================ ====== The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns thing s weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC)

================================================================================ ====== In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, d epends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a stu died part. - Washington Irving (1783-1859) ================================================================================ ====== Faith is believing what you know ain't so. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. - William Ralph Inge ================================================================================ ====== Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce ================================================================================ ====== A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us ; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when tro uble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind pr ecepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to retu rn to our hearts. - Washington Irving ================================================================================ ====== There is no place like home. - L. Frank Baum The author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was born on this day in 15-May-1856. ================================================================================

====== I can t write without a reader. It s precisely like a kiss you can t do it alone. - John Cheever ================================================================================ ====== There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky The Nobel laureate and author of Watermark was born on this day in 24-May-1940. ================================================================================ ====== It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The author of Self-Reliance was born on this day in 25-May-1803. ================================================================================ ====== The more one judges, the less one loves. - Honoré de Balzac ================================================================================ ====== Resist much, obey little. - Walt Whitman The author of Leaves of Grass was born on this day in 31-May-1819. ================================================================================ ====== What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wh erever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. - Alan Bennett ================================================================================ ====== The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road bu ilt in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. - Marion Zimmer Bradley The author of The Mists of Avalon was born on this day in 3-Jun-1930.

================================================================================ ====== A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at t he end. You live several lives while reading. - William Styron The author of Sophie's Choice was born on this day in 11-Jun-1925. ================================================================================ ====== I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) ================================================================================ ====== In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are mo re of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. - Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) ================================================================================ ====== It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain on e who is anxious to leave. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. - E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

================================================================================ ====== Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she h ad laid an asteroid. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== We re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone who se weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutuall y satisfying weirdness and call it love true love. - Robert Fulghum ================================================================================ ====== It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - André Gide ================================================================================ ====== Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow ================================================================================ ====== There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a mean s of transportation. - Yann Martel The author of Life of Pi was born on 25-June-1963. ================================================================================ ====== To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck The Nobel laureate and author of The Good Earth was born on this day in 1892. ================================================================================ ======

There is no friend as loyal as a book - Ernest Hemingway ================================================================================ ====== A fearful man is always hearing things. - Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. - Mark Twain. ================================================================================ ====== A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== A rich man is an honest man no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave to ch eat mankind when he had no need of it. - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) ================================================================================ ====== Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine. - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of po wer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh ================================================================================ ====== One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

- Helen Keller The author of The Story of My Life was born on 27-June-1880. ================================================================================ ====== We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - William Faulkner In honor of Independence Day. ================================================================================ ====== Friendships begin with liking or gratitude

roots that can be pulled up.

- George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the de adening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== Can there be hope where fear is? - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserabl e. - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) ================================================================================ ====== No iron can pierce a heart with such force as a period put just at the right pla ce. - Isaac Babel

================================================================================ ====== Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William Makepeace Thackeray ================================================================================ ====== Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau The author of Walden was born on 17-Jul-1817. ================================================================================ ====== Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch The British philosopher and novelist was born on 15-Jul-1919 ================================================================================ ====== There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who l ove the same books. - Irving Stone The author of The Agony and the Ecstasy was born on 14-Jul-1903. ================================================================================ ====== I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B. White The author of Charlotte's Web was born on 11-Jul-1899. ================================================================================ ====== Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. - Glen Cook The author of The Black Company was born on 9-Jul-1944. ================================================================================ ======

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine The French poet and author of Fables was born on 8-Jul-1621. ================================================================================ ====== I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. - Jean Kerr ================================================================================ ====== It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau ================================================================================ ====== Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. - Benjamin Franklin ================================================================================ ====== I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. - S.E. Hinton The author of The Outsiders was born on 22-Jul-1948. ================================================================================ ====== You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. - Cormac McCarthy The author of The Road was born on 20-Jul-1933. ================================================================================ ====== A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made fo r him by circumstance. - Hunter S. Thompson The author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was born on 18-Jul-1937. ================================================================================ ====== There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

- Raymond Chandler The author of The Big Sleep was born on 23-July-1888. ================================================================================ ====== Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James (1843-1916) ================================================================================ ====== A man in debt is so far a slave. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== As we know, the life of leisure doesn t give us a moment s rest. James Merrill ================================================================================ ====== A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the p urpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdue d by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving (1783-1859) ================================================================================ ======

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When i t is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, for it is a sign of st rength to be weak, to know it, and out with it. - Herman Melville (1819-1891) ================================================================================ ====== You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. - Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) ================================================================================ ====== A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ================================================================================ ====== Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be prov ed a deceiver. - Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) ================================================================================ ====== The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley ================================================================================ ======

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man. - Thomas Paine ================================================================================ ====== A good lather is half the shave ================================================================================ ====== Truth will walk naked, but lies have got to be properly dressed. - Siddhu ================================================================================ ====== And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who ma rries you will need. - P.G. Wodehouse ================================================================================ ====== I don't care what they have to say It makes no difference anyway; Whatever it is, I'm against it! - Groucho Marx ================================================================================ ====== These are my principles. If you don t like them I have others. - Groucho Marx ================================================================================ ====== "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." - Rumi ================================================================================ ====== He who opens a school door, closes a prison - Victor Hugo ================================================================================ ======

Life was lived forward but was judged in reverse - Salman Rushdie ================================================================================ ====== John Locke, one of Jefferson's trinity of three greatest men, showed why almost th ree centuries ago. Locke watched the arguing factions of Protestantism, each claiming to be the one true religion, and asked: How do we know something to be true? What is the basi s of knowledge? In 1689 he defined what knowledge is and how it is grounded in observations of t he physical world in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Any claim that fails this test is but faith, or opinion, but not knowledge. It was this idea that the world is knowable and that objective, empirical knowledg e is the most equitable basis for public policy that stood as Jefferson's foundati onal argument for democracy. ================================================================================ ====== Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they ll go through anything. You read and you re pierced. - Aldous Huxley ================================================================================ ====== The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unr easonable man. - George Bernard Shaw ================================================================================ ====== I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. - J.K. Rowling ================================================================================ ====== A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville ================================================================================ ====== You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. - James Baldwin ================================================================================ ======

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! - Percy Bysshe Shelley ================================================================================ ====== There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. - Guy de Maupassant ================================================================================ ====== Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. - Pablo Picasso ================================================================================ ====== Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. - Wole Soyinka ================================================================================ ====== Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. - Sophocles ================================================================================ ====== I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. - Pablo Neruda ================================================================================ ====== Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brev ity. - Jean de La Bruyère ================================================================================ ====== The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that th ey didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

- Ted Hughes ================================================================================ ====== A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. - Ogden Nash ================================================================================ ====== It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. - William Ernest Henley ================================================================================ ====== You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. - Frank McCourt ================================================================================ ====== Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. - Orson Scott Card ================================================================================ ====== Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may s tart a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ================================================================================ ====== A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ================================================================================ ====== Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. - John Dryden ================================================================================ ======

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose. - Gene Stratton-Porter ================================================================================ ====== I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. - Georges Bataille ================================================================================ ====== Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. - Peter De Vries ================================================================================ ====== A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a c hallenge. - China Miéville ================================================================================ ====== Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. - Samuel Johnson ================================================================================ ====== To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ================================================================================ ====== Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was anothe r. - Toni Morrison ================================================================================ ====== Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin ================================================================================ ======

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde ================================================================================ ====== A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John le Carré ================================================================================ ====== There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. - Socrates ================================================================================ ====== If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. - Lois McMaster Bujold ================================================================================ ====== Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can s ee. - Arthur Schopenhauer ================================================================================ ====== Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. - Albert Camus ================================================================================ ====== Amateurs discuss strategy; Rank Amateurs discuss tactics; True Professionals foc us on logistics. - A Military Adage ================================================================================ ====== To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. - Abraham Maslow ================================================================================ ====== The remedy is worse than the disease.

- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W.C. Fields ================================================================================ ====== I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edg e you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut ================================================================================ ====== Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth. - Anne Sexton - The American Poet ================================================================================ ====== Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody no matter how dull and bo ring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazin g worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. - Neil Gaiman (The author of American Gods) ================================================================================ ====== Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. - Henry Ford ================================================================================ ======

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan ================================================================================ ====== If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton ================================================================================ ====== Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organism s. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ================================================================================ ====== Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts - José Saramago ================================================================================ ====== The soldier who executes what his captain orders does no less than the captain h imself who gives the order. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, fo rever. - George Orwell ================================================================================ ====== It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to p ut a single innocent one to death. - Maimonedes ================================================================================ ====== Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

================================================================================ ====== Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. - John Milton (1608-1674) ================================================================================ ====== After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde ================================================================================ ====== He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ================================================================================ ====== De mortuis nihil nisi bonum:

Of the dead, nothing unless good"

De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est : id

Of the dead nothing but good is to be sa

- Chilon of Sparta ================================================================================ ====== ars [est] celare artem : art [is] to conceal art - An aesthetic ideal that good art should appear natural rather than contrived. ================================================================================ ====== ars gratia artis : art for art's sake ================================================================================ ====== aut neca aut necare : either kill or be killed or neca ne neceris (kill lest yo u be killed) ================================================================================ ====== aut pax aut bellum

: either peace or war

- The motto of the Gunn Clan. ================================================================================ ======

aut viam inveniam aut faciam : I will either find a way or make one - Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca ================================================================================ ====== datum perficiemus munus : We shall accomplish the mission assigned or MISSION GI VEN, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ================================================================================ ====== Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ================================================================================ ====== The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the r ealist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward ================================================================================ ====== It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing tha t makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. - Dale Carnegie ================================================================================ ====== Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurse s. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== How reckless is Nature in the distribution of her gifts!

- P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) ================================================================================ ====== Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain (1-Dec-1835) ================================================================================ ====== Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. - Rita Mae Brown ================================================================================ ====== I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of re pair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surface of t he earth. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them again, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone." - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly hold ing up hope in the midst of despair. - Herman Melville (1819-1891) ================================================================================ ====== The greatest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason - T.S. Eliot ================================================================================ ====== Why are women...so much more interesting to men than men are to women? - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ================================================================================

====== It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. - Ann Patchett ================================================================================ ====== Grammar is a piano I play by ear. - Joan Didion ================================================================================ ====== The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing desire. - Willa Cather The author of My Ántonia was born on this day in 11-12-1873. ================================================================================ ====== Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. - Emily Dickinson ================================================================================ ====== To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. - Henry James (1843-1916) ================================================================================ ====== Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, unti l the day you die, world without end, amen. - George Saunders ================================================================================ ====== I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ================================================================================ ====== Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skie s.

- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or l ast time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. - Betty Smith ================================================================================ ====== In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. - Jane Austen ================================================================================ ====== Patriotism is like charity it begins at home. - Henry James (1843-1916) ================================================================================ ====== If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon ================================================================================ ====== Confusion breeds in convoluted minds. ================================================================================ ====== Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke ================================================================================ ====== It is not right to glory in the slain. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. - Philip K. Dick

================================================================================ ====== Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== History develops, art stands still. - E. M. Forster (1879-1970) ================================================================================ ====== Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warr iors. - Charles de Lint The author of The Blue Girl was born on this day in 22-Dec-1951. ================================================================================ ====== I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in pur ple and fine linen. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== Tonight s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! Ogden Nash ================================================================================ ====== For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T.S. Eliot ================================================================================ ======

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. - Henry Miller ================================================================================ ====== He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purpl e of Emperors. - Rudyard Kipling ================================================================================ ====== Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ================================================================================ ====== Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. - Douglas Coupland ================================================================================ ====== You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. - Khalil Gibran ================================================================================ ====== Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) ================================================================================ ======

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slin k in after it. - Baltasar Gracián The author of The Art of Worldly Wisdom was born on 8-Jan-1601. ================================================================================ ====== But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. - Alan Wilson Watts ================================================================================ ====== Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good figh ter. - Anchee Min The author of Red Azalea was born on 14-Jan-1957. ================================================================================ ====== Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg ================================================================================ ====== Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. - Haruki Murakami ================================================================================ ====== My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

- Osip Mandelstam The Russian poet was born on 15-Jan-1891. ================================================================================ ====== As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once . - John Green ================================================================================ ====== My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. - Mary Shelley (1797-1851) ================================================================================ ====== The book, I wish to write, awaits the arrival of my Queen, Sarah The Magnificent , in the recesses of my nous. And when she graces me with her countenance, then shall my ganglions quiver to transpose the garble in the recesses onto the fines t parchment, indited in an unending stream. - Abey Mathew ================================================================================ ====== The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expendi ture, but in its wise application. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe ================================================================================ ====== It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you kn ow you cannot reach them. - R.A. Salvatore ================================================================================ ====== There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polit ic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. - Martin Luther King Jr.

================================================================================ ====== It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. - Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other s welcome. - Derek Walcott The Nobel laureate was born on this day in 1930. ================================================================================ ====== Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. - Edith Wharton ================================================================================ ====== And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ================================================================================ ====== I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand y ears watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. - Jack London ================================================================================ ====== Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that

you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf ================================================================================ ====== Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or i n ten years. Think of to-day. - Romain Rolland ================================================================================ ====== If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we h ave no voice or representation. - Abigail Adams ================================================================================ ====== To be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune. - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) ================================================================================ ====== To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. - Muriel Spark ================================================================================ ====== A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. - Walter Mosley ================================================================================ ====== The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. - Thomas Merton ================================================================================ ====== I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity. - Nadezhda Mandelstam ================================================================================ ======

Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W. Somerset Maugham ================================================================================ ====== Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present ar e certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) ================================================================================ ====== I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someon e who made it interesting. - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) ================================================================================ ====== Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. - Alice Walker ================================================================================ ====== And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. - Edward Lear February 10, 1846: British artist and writer Edward Lear published the first of his delightful works of literary nonsense, A Book of Nonsense, 167 years ago tod ay. ================================================================================ ====== When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. - Nelson Mandela February 11, 1990: Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years as a political prisoner. He went on to become the President of South Afric a. ================================================================================ ====== Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would det ect the subtlest fold of the heart. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================

====== Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. - Lillian Hellman February 15, 1980: In the final stroke of a legendary 20th century literary feud , playwright Lillian Hellman sued novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. Hellman died before the case went to court. ================================================================================ ====== All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. - John Steinbeck ================================================================================ ====== Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lo st in information? - T. S. Eliot ================================================================================ ====== Our future is measured by the books we intend to read. ================================================================================ ====== Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. - Betty Friedan February 19, 1963: Fifty years ago today, Betty Friedan published her landmark w ork, The Feminine Mystique, sparking a new wave of feminism. ================================================================================ ====== If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. Thi s is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to other s.

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) ================================================================================ ====== It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James (1843-1916) ================================================================================ ====== Summer afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the English language. - Henry James (1843-1916) ================================================================================ ====== Folks, All the best for the exams... This is how it is and has been for me so far..... :) It's my attempt to novelise Economics :) It's in fact a romantic story, and an interesting one :).... With my bundle of goods, I slid down a negatively sloping demand curve, only to be picked up at the equilibrium point & catapulted into the outer space from an upward sloping positive supply curve to land in some other 2D world, where I got stuck at a turnpike, which is the secret meeting place of the suave bachelor Mr . Price and resplendent bachelorette Ms. Marginal Cost, in which world only the labourers belabour and vary but the capital is at rest. Welcome to the short-run. It all depends upon the concurrence of Mr. Average Cost's ideas with his daughte r, Ms. Marginal Cost's of her marriage with Mr. Price, if the boring and unchang ing place with immovable capital would become a dynamic place. That magnificent place which awaits it's due glory of efficient labourers & a dy namic capital would be named the Long-Run. It would be the same place where the father Mr. Average Cost would plight his da ughter, Ms. Marginal Cost's troth to Mr. Price. And having fulfilled all responsibilities of the Cost family, Mr. Average Cost c ould then gradually slip into a slow life. Abey, The Bard of IIM :) ================================================================================ ====== It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ================================================================================ ====== Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ======

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of i ts existence will be found at least equal to its resources. - Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) ================================================================================ ====== A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome...It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the c ourage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. - Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) ================================================================================ ====== But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, o r with somebody who understands. - Daphne du Maurier March 13, 1907: British writer Daphne du Maurier was born 106 years ago today. H itchcock's horror classic, The Birds, was based on her short story by the same n ame. ================================================================================ ====== Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Robert Benchley ================================================================================ ====== Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Adam was but human this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ================================================================================ ====== I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ================================================================================ ====== I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can l ove me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ================================================================================ ====== The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it liet h; and whatever it hath it hath stolen. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ================================================================================ ====== It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heal s injury. - Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) ================================================================================ ====== But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human natu re? - James Madison (1751-1836) ================================================================================ ======

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on o ne level of evil. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost encha nted after all. - Vincent van Gogh March 30, 1853: The inimitable artist Vincent van Gogh was also a dedicated lett er writer. He was born in Zundert, the Netherlands, 160 years ago today. ================================================================================ ====== What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. - Kobayashi Issa March 27, 1912: Before the World Wars, Japan sent thousands of cherry trees to W ashington, D.C., as a gesture of friendship. They were planted 101 years ago and continue to bloom today. ================================================================================ ====== Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a was te to be asking the question when you are the answer. - Joseph Campbell March 26, 1904: Ever wonder who first uttered the New Age proclamation: Follow y our bliss? It was Joseph Campbell, mythologizer of the myth, who was born 109 ye ars ago today. ================================================================================ ====== I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder - Lawrence Ferlinghetti March 24, 1919: Happy 94th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! The cofounder of Cit y Lights, America's first all-paperback bookstore, also published some of the be st minds of his generation. ================================================================================ ====== My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. - Louis Adamic

March 23, 1899: Novelist and political activist Louis Adamic was born in present -day Slovenia, 114 years ago today. ================================================================================ ====== Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. - Ved Mehta March 21, 1934: Born in Lahore when it was still under British rule, writer Ved Mehta made his way to the U.S. and became a New Yorker staffer. Happy 79th birth day! ================================================================================ ====== No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland March 20: Today is the vernal equinox, when night and day are exactly the same l ength. We mark the return of spring with a quote from American outdoor writer Ha l Borland. ================================================================================ ====== Books may well be the only true magic. - Alice Hoffman March 16, 1952: Happy birthday, Alice Hoffman! The novelist, whose settings rang e from the Bronze Age to a post-apocalyptic future, was born in New York City, 6 1 years ago today. ================================================================================ ====== The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare March 15, 44 B.C.: Beware of any friends named Brutus! Julius Caesar laughed off a soothsayer's warning and was assassinated by his frenemy 2056 years ago today . ================================================================================ ====== candyfloss noun [mass noun] British 1. a mass of pink or white fluffy spun sugar wrapped round a stick a fat baby was pushing candyfloss into its chubby face

[as modifier]: figurativea round pink face topped by white candyfloss hair 2. something perceived as lacking in worth or substance their music is just aural candyfloss ================================================================================ ====== croquembouche noun 1. a decorative dessert consisting of choux pastry and crystallized fruit or ot her confectionery items arranged in a cone and held together by a caramel sauce. Origin: French, literally 'crunch in the mouth' ================================================================================ ====== But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, o r with somebody who understands. - Daphne du Maurier March 13, 1907: British writer Daphne du Maurier was born 106 years ago today. H itchcock's horror classic, The Birds, was based on her short story by the same n ame. ================================================================================ ====== Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom, ... but I wish any wise man w ould teach me what use to make of it now that I have it. - Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ================================================================================ ====== Don t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and every thing coming out equal. When you re good, bad things can still happen. And if you re bad, you can still be lucky. - Barbara Kingsolver April 8, 1955: Happy birthday, Barbara Kingsolver! The best-selling author of Th e Poisonwood Bible was born in Annapolis, Maryland, 58 years ago today.

================================================================================ ====== Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. - Francesco Petrarca April 6, 1327: Known in English as Petrarch, Renaissance scholar and poet France sco Petrarca first laid eyes on the beautiful Laura who was married to another and never returned his love 686 years ago today. The sonnets he wrote to her inspired imitators like Shakespeare. ================================================================================ ====== If a man's character is to be abused ... there's nobody like a relation to do th e business. - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) ================================================================================ ====== People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes j ar their teeth terribly against it. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== I slip out of sleep when slopped with sleep - Abey M ================================================================================ ====== There are talkers enough among us; I'll be one of the doers. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting presen t. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are won t to love. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ================================================================================ ======

Just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to e xpect that our hurts will be made much of to be content with little nurture and ca ressing, and help each other the more. - George Eliot (1819-1880) ================================================================================ ====== It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' f ootsteps guide the world. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ================================================================================ ====== The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man h ad friends and associates in his desolation. - Mary Shelley (1797-1851) ================================================================================ ====== Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in t he period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) ================================================================================ ====== But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Julius Caesar, Act II Scene 1 ================================================================================ ====== Time has laid his healing hand upon the wound when we can look back upon the pai n we once fainted under and no bitterness or despair rises in our hearts. - Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) ================================================================================ ====== Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) ================================================================================ ====== That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how dif ferent its course would have been. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ================================================================================ ====== If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess wh at he's doing, keep behind him. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I' ve never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids th e sight of distress. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ================================================================================ ====== No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may ca ll principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ================================================================================ ====== To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is nece ssary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihil ate the power of reason. - Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) ================================================================================ ====== When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue - Kazi Nazrul Islam ================================================================================ ====== Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities. - Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936) ================================================================================ ====== History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that a re born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events . History is dominated and determined by the tool and the productionÑby the force of economic conditions. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ================================================================================ ====== We love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ================================================================================ ====== It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own. - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ================================================================================ ====== I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ================================================================================ ====== We must have felt what it is to die ... that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living. - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) ================================================================================

====== The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take th eir choice. - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) ================================================================================ ====== Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than f lattery. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) ================================================================================ ====== To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes th e one, philosophy the other. - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) ================================================================================ ====== Brains are at a discount in the married state. There is no demand for them, no a ppreciation even. - Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) ================================================================================ ====== By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no kno wing, my son, what good you may do. - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) ================================================================================ ====== He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680), in Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547 ================================================================================ ====== I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfor tunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) ================================================================================ ======

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) ================================================================================ ====== Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against false hood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) ================================================================================ ====== He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) ================================================================================ ====== America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our free doms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ================================================================================ ====== Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ================================================================================ ====== One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) ================================================================================ ====== All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and howe ver we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty pri nce. - Plato (427 BC-347 BC) ================================================================================ ====== One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) ================================================================================

====== There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to ey e keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their fri ends. - Homer (900 BC-800 BC) ================================================================================ ====== Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be e ntertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution--such call I good books. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ================================================================================ ====== One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) ================================================================================ ======