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Quotations of the Day: May 2000
May 31, 2000
I see adult sexuality more as an expression of an emotional attitude than as a function of anatomy. —Dr. Ruth Berkeley
May 30, 2000
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. —Edward Bulwer Lytton
May 29, 2000
Was all my youth—the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals—meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy? —William Broyles, Jr.
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. —Thomas Moore
May 26, 2000
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. —Tom Stoppard
May 25, 2000
Wandering between two worlds,—one dead, / The other powerless to be born. —Matthew Arnold
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. —Phædrus
May 22, 2000
To John I owed great obligation; / But John unhappily thought fit / To publish it to all the nation— / Now I and John are fairly quit. —Matthew Prior
May 21, 2000
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin. —Proverbs
May 20, 2000
The mysterious … is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein
May 19, 2000
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,— / As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. —John Dryden
May 18, 2000
Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all. —Jan Morris
May 17, 2000
Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew and dog will have his day. —William Shakespeare
May 16, 2000
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. —Hannah Arendt
May 15, 2000
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. —Maya Angelou
May 14, 2000
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never is, but always to be blest. / The soul, uneasy and confined from home, / Rests and expatiates in a life to come. —Alexander Pope
In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. —Book of Common Prayer
May 9, 2000
I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight. —Richard Wright
May 8, 2000
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father. —J. de La Fontaine
May 7, 2000
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. —Lillian Hellman
May 6, 2000
Man is his own star; and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man / Commands all light, all influence, all fate. —John Fletcher
May 5, 2000
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. —John Fowles
May 4, 2000
How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold / The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold! —John Ferriar
May 3, 2000
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. —Herman Melville
May 2, 2000
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. —William Shakespeare
May 1, 2000
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. —Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
