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Quotations of the Day: January 2001
January 31, 2001
Pessimism is as American as apple pie—frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. —George F. Will
January 30, 2001
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. —Jacques Barzun
January 29, 2001
If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you. —Robert Anthony
January 28, 2001
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. —Plutarch
January 27, 2001
Said I, in scorn all burning hot, / In rage and anger high, / “You ignominious idiot, / Those wings are made to fly!” —Charlotte Perkins Gilman
January 26, 2001
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on. —William Shakespeare
January 25, 2001
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 24, 2001
E’en though it be a cross / That raiseth me, / Still all my song shall be, / Nearer, my God, to Thee! —Sarah Flower Adams
January 23, 2001
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. —Dr. Richard Selzer
January 22, 2001
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. —Elie Wiesel
January 21, 2001
One administration will be more pink, another more yellow. —Irv Williams
January 20, 2001
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. —Ada Louise Huxtable
Who hath not proved how feebly words essay / To fix one spark of beauty’s heavenly ray? —Lord Byron
January 17, 2001
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. —Louis Nizer
January 16, 2001
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. —Stanislaw Lem
January 15, 2001
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 14, 2001
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. —1 Kings xx. 11.
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. —Samuel Johnson
January 11, 2001
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. —Graham Greene
January 10, 2001
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. —Sir William Temple
January 9, 2001
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power. —Robert Frost
January 8, 2001
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. —Vince Lombardi
January 7, 2001
Who does not love wine, women, and song / Remains a fool his whole life long. —Anonymous
January 6, 2001
For words are wise men’s counters,—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. —Thomas Hobbes
January 5, 2001
It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. —John Kepler
January 4, 2001
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. —Marcus Aurelius
January 3, 2001
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. —J.R.R. Tolkien
