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Quotations of the Day: June 2000
June 30, 2000
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. —Vanessa Redgrave
June 29, 2000
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,—conscience. —George Washington
June 28, 2000
If [students] can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. —Jesse Jackson
June 27, 2000
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. —Viscount John Morley
June 26, 2000
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. —Alexander Pope
I think the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. —J. Donald Adams
June 22, 2000
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. —Michael de Montaigne
June 21, 2000
Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea. —Henryk Ibsen
June 20, 2000
All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream. —Edgar Allan Poe
June 19, 2000
Rest is not quitting / The busy career, / Rest is the fitting / Of self to one’s sphere. —John Sullivan Dwight
June 18, 2000
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. —Walt Whitman
June 17, 2000
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together. —John Ruskin
June 16, 2000
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. —Henry David Thoreau
June 15, 2000
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice. —Rudyard Kipling
June 14, 2000
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. —Cyril Connolly
June 13, 2000
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, / And think they grow immortal as they quote. —Edward Young
June 12, 2000
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious. —Kingman Brewster
June 11, 2000
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound… —Richard Gifford
June 10, 2000
Paintin’s not important. The important thing is keepin’ busy. —Grandma Moses
June 9, 2000
Prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
June 8, 2000
Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. —Dag Hammarskjöld
June 7, 2000
Three foremost aids to persuasion which occur to me are humility, concentration, and gusto. —Marianne Moore
June 6, 2000
I am always in haste, but never in a hurry. —John Wesley
June 5, 2000
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. —Karl Barth
June 4, 2000
Whose sore task / Does not divide the Sunday from the week. —William Shakespeare
June 3, 2000
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. —Anthony Burgess
June 2, 2000
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies / In other men, sleeping but never dead, / Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. —James Russell Lowell
June 1, 2000
Oh, my luve ’s like a red, red rose, / That ’s newly sprung in June; / Oh, my luve ’s like the melodie / That ’s sweetly played in tune. —Robert Burns
