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Quotations of the Day: November 2007
November 30, 2007
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. —Winston Churchill
November 29, 2007
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 28, 2007
When one eats, one should not forget those who till the fields. —Chinese proverb
November 27, 2007
When you are down and out something always turns up—and it is usually the noses of your friends. —Orson Welles
November 26, 2007
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. —Charles M. Schulz
November 25, 2007
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought … feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. —Lewis Thomas
November 24, 2007
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. —Spinoza
Inclination snatches arguments / To make indulgence seem judicious choice. —George Eliot
November 21, 2007
Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one. —Voltaire
November 20, 2007
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. —Robert F. Kennedy
November 19, 2007
Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. —Saki
November 18, 2007
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time. —Clarence Day
November 17, 2007
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. —Walter Pater
November 16, 2007
Nowhere to fall but off, / Nowhere to stand but on. —Ben King
November 15, 2007
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. —Marianne Moore
November 14, 2007
Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it’s possible. —P.J. O’Rourke
November 13, 2007
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. —Myra MacPherson
November 12, 2007
The moon gives you light, / And the bugles and the drums give you music, / And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, / My heart gives you love. —Walt Whitman
November 11, 2007
Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November 10, 2007
Men often act knowingly against their interest. —David Hume
November 9, 2007
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant. —Herman Melville
November 8, 2007
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. —Margaret Mitchell
November 7, 2007
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. —Art Buchwald
November 6, 2007
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
November 5, 2007
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals. —Ida M. Tarbell
November 4, 2007
We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood; we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes; we who have attended their funerals and cannot look in the eyes of their parents; we who have come from a land where parents bury their children; we who have fought against you, the Palestinians—we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice: enough of blood and tears. Enough. —Yitzhak Rabin
November 3, 2007
So they, who climb to wealth, forget / The friends in darker fortunes tried. / I copied them—but I regret / That I should ape the ways of pride. —William Cullen Bryant
November 2, 2007
If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home. —Patrick Buchanan
November 1, 2007
I am enchanted, believe me, / To die, thus, / In this mediaeval fashion, / According to the best legends. —Stephen Crane
