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Quotations of the Day: April 2003
April 30, 2003
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. —Sigmund Freud
April 29, 2003
Roaming through the jungle of “oohs” and “ahs,” searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. —Duke Ellington
April 28, 2003
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. —Albert Einstein
April 27, 2003
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. —Herbert Spencer
April 26, 2003
By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes. —William Shakespeare
April 25, 2003
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime. —Henry George
April 24, 2003
A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms / Grows from a downy tip; / A terrace nine stories high / Rises from hodfuls of earth; / A journey of a thousand miles / Starts from beneath one’s feet. —Lao-Tzu
April 23, 2003
The crest and crowning of all good, / Life’s final star, is Brotherhood. —Edwin Markham
April 22, 2003
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. —Henry Fielding
April 21, 2003
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. —Charlotte Brontë
April 20, 2003
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom of mind, so also the individual’s freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. —John Paul Stevens
April 19, 2003
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. —Jean Baudrillard
April 18, 2003
My mind lets go a thousand things, / Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sex stops when you pull up your pants, / Love never lets you go. —Sir Kingsley Amis
April 15, 2003
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance … and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. —Henry James
April 14, 2003
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. —Branch Cabell
April 13, 2003
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. —Thomas Jefferson
April 12, 2003
Absence of occupation is not rest, / A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d. —William Cowper
April 11, 2003
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below. —Herman Melville
April 10, 2003
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. —UNESCO
April 9, 2003
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. —Charles Baudelaire
April 8, 2003
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. —Pablo Picasso
April 7, 2003
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself. —Trevor Huddleston
April 6, 2003
A good word is as a good tree— / its roots are firm, / and its branches are in heaven; / it gives its produce every season / by the leave of its Lord. —Qur’an
April 5, 2003
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. —Sun Tzu
April 4, 2003
The only people who grow old were born old to begin with. —Robert E. Sherwood
April 3, 2003
What if, both mad and blinded in their rage, / Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage, / And with a hostile step profane our sod! / We shall not shrink, my brothers, but go forth. —Henry Timrod
April 2, 2003
Nay, if there’s room for poets in this world / A little overgrown (I think there is), / Their sole work is to represent the age. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
April 1, 2003
The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic. —Robert Graves
