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Quotations of the Day: February 2001

February 28, 2001

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  —Montaigne

February 27, 2001

The hooded clouds, like friars, / Tell their beads in drops of rain.
  —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

February 26, 2001

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
  —Frank Leahy

February 25, 2001

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
  —Anthony Burgess

February 24, 2001

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  —Plutarch

February 23, 2001

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
  —John Keats

February 22, 2001

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
  —George Washington

February 21, 2001

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
  —Michael Jordan

February 20, 2001

The people arose as one man.
  —Judges xx. 8.

February 19, 2001

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never is, but always to be blest.
  —Alexander Pope

February 18, 2001

Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine: / There’s life and strength in every drop,—thanksgiving to the vine!
  —Albert Gorton Greene

February 17, 2001

And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.
  —Matthew Arnold

February 16, 2001

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
  —Isak Dinesen

February 15, 2001

In the circle in which I travel, a dumb man is more dangerous than a hundred rats.
  —Joe Valachi

February 14, 2001

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
  —Seán O’Faoláin

February 13, 2001

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
  —A.J. Liebling

February 12, 2001

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
  —Morarji R. Desai

February 11, 2001

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
  —Edmund Burke

February 10, 2001

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
  —Laurence Sterne

February 9, 2001

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
  —Fulton J. Sheen

February 8, 2001

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
  —Umberto Eco

February 7, 2001

Ay, do despise me! I ’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
  —Isaac Bickerstaff

February 6, 2001

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
  —W.H. Auden

February 5, 2001

The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
  —Charles Blair Macdonald

February 4, 2001

Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed; / How hard their lot who neither won nor lost!
  —Richard Graves

February 3, 2001

The story of the curve ball is the story of the game itself. Some would say of life itself.
  —Martin Quigley

February 2, 2001

Get money; still get money, boy, / No matter by what means.
  —Ben Jonson

February 1, 2001

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
  —Elizabeth Bowen

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