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Quotations of the Day: March 2001
March 31, 2001
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. —Salvador Dali
March 30, 2001
No dream his life was—but a fight! / Could any Beatrice see / A lover in that anchorite? —Thomas William Parsons
March 29, 2001
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. —Boris Pasternak
March 28, 2001
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. —Herman Wouk
March 27, 2001
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market…. hares have no time to read. —Anita Brookner
March 26, 2001
The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch. —R.Z. Sheppard
March 25, 2001
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. —Abraham Lincoln
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. —John Updike
March 19, 2001
Terrible he rode alone, / With his Yemen sword for aid; / Ornament it carried none / But the notches on the blade. —An Arab War-song
March 18, 2001
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. —Arnold Toynbee
March 17, 2001
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. —Edna O’Brien
March 16, 2001
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. —Lee Iacocca
March 15, 2001
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure. —Cicero
March 14, 2001
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity. —Albert Einstein
March 13, 2001
But once put out thy light, / Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature, / I know not where is that Promethean heat / That can thy light relume. —Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
March 12, 2001
Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time’s noblest offspring is the last. —George Berkeley
March 11, 2001
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming. —Garrison Keillor
March 10, 2001
To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world. —Otis C. Edwards
March 9, 2001
’T is education forms the common mind: / Just as the twig is bent the tree ’s inclined. —Alexander Pope
March 8, 2001
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night. —Richard Hovey
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
March 5, 2001
Women do two thirds of the world’s work…. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. —Barber B. Conable Jr.
March 4, 2001
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways—in science, in politics, in every bold intention. —Shirley Temple Black
March 3, 2001
Today the ringing of the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime. —Niels Diffrient
March 2, 2001
The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football. —Mark White
