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| Quotations of the Day: March–April 2000 |
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April 30, 2000
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
—Lyndon B. Johnson
April 29, 2000
Sleep is the best meditation.
—Dalai Lama
April 28, 2000
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
—Alvin Toffler
April 27, 2000
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
—Lionel Trilling
April 26, 2000
Large streams from little fountains flow, / Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
—David Everett
April 25, 2000
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter
April 24, 2000
But war ’s a game which were their subjects wise / Kings would not play at.
—William Cowper
April 23, 2000
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
—John, xiii. 21
April 22, 2000
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
—Exodus, xiii. 21
April 21, 2000
When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
—William Carlos Williams
April 20, 2000
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, / As sages in all times assert; / The happy man ’s without a shirt.
—John Heywood
April 19, 2000
Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.
—Ronni Lundy
April 18, 2000
These are the times that try men’s souls.
—Thomas Paine
April 17, 2000
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
—Charles Scribner, Jr.
April 16, 2000
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
—Duke of Wellington
April 15, 2000
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
—Walter Lord
April 14, 2000
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
—William Congreve
April 13, 2000
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
—Paul Engle
April 12, 2000
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
—Mildred Witte Struven
April 11, 2000
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
—Virginia Woolf
April 10, 2000
Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.
—John Masefield
April 9, 2000
Certum est, quia impossibile est. (It is certain because it is impossible.)
—Tertullian
April 8, 2000
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
—Arthur Miller
April 7, 2000
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
—Dr. Seuss
April 6, 2000
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
—Alexander Pope
April 5, 2000
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
—Robert Graves
April 4, 2000
Time has laid his hand / Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, / But as a harper lays his open palm / Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
—Henry W. Longfellow
April 3, 2000
April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.…
—T.S. Eliot
April 2, 2000
Envy is as persistent as memory, as intractable as a head cold.
—Harry Stein
April 1, 2000
Whanne that April with his shoures sote / The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
March 31, 2000
He was my North, my South, my East and West, / My working week and my Sunday rest, / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; / I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
—W. H. Auden
March 30, 2000
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
—John Cheever
March 29, 2000
Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
—James Thomson
March 28, 2000
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton
March 27, 2000
I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
—Sally Field
March 26, 2000
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden
March 25, 2000
The world’s great age begins anew, / The golden years return, / The earth doth like a snake renew / Her winter weeds outworn.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
March 24, 2000
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there…
—Archibald MacLeish
March 23, 2000
Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
—William Shakespeare
March 22, 2000
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
—Samuel Johnson
March 21, 2000
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation.
—Eudora Welty
March 20, 2000
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
—Thomas Carlyle
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