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Quotations of the Day: March 2002
March 31, 2002
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood / This Eastertide call into mind the men / Now far from home. —Edward Thomas
March 30, 2002
Friendship demands a religious treatment. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 29, 2002
O the chimneys / On the ingeniously devised habitations of death / When Israel’s body drifted as smoke / Through the air— —Nelly Sachs
March 28, 2002
This is my commandment, that ye love one another. —John 15:12
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. / Contemplate glory. There will be a light. / Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out. —Robert Frost
March 25, 2002
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business. —Flannery O’Connor
March 24, 2002
Rejoice, lest pleasureless ye die. / Within a little time must ye go by. / Stretch forth your open hands, and while ye live / Take all the gifts that Death and Life may give! —William Morris
March 23, 2002
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. —Wernher von Braun
March 22, 2002
First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that of years ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race. —James Joyce
March 21, 2002
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. —Chinese proverb
March 20, 2002
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. —Ovid
March 19, 2002
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. —Earl Warren
March 18, 2002
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. —Grover Cleveland
March 17, 2002
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mission unrecognized by political economists. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism. —Lydia M. Child
March 16, 2002
[Let] the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise. —James Madison
March 15, 2002
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. —William Shakespeare
March 14, 2002
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England. —Sir Thomas Malory
March 13, 2002
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. —Jeremy Bentham
March 12, 2002
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. —Jack Kerouac
March 11, 2002
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. —Torquato Tasso
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. —George Burns
March 8, 2002
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
March 7, 2002
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. —William Penn
March 6, 2002
The marble not yet carved can hold the form Of every thought the greatest artist has. —Michelangelo Buonarroti
March 5, 2002
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. —Rosa Luxemburg
March 4, 2002
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. —Paul Newman
March 3, 2002
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. —Thomas Otway
March 2, 2002
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. —John Jay Chapman
March 1, 2002
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, / It’s the light of the oncoming train. —Robert Lowell
