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Quotations of the Day: October 2000
October 31, 2000
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, / That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. —Milton on Shakespeare
October 30, 2000
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. —Book of Common Prayer
October 29, 2000
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it. —Paula Fox
October 28, 2000
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. —Truman Capote
October 27, 2000
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. —Henry A. Kissinger
October 26, 2000
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. —Golda Meir
October 25, 2000
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. —John C. Calhoun
October 24, 2000
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. —Walt Whitman
October 23, 2000
Those curious locks so aptly twin’d, / Whose every hair a soul doth bind. —Thomas Carew
October 22, 2000
Father, I scarcely dare to pray, / So clear I see, now it is done, / How I have wasted half my day, / And left my work but just begun. —Helen Hunt Jackson
October 21, 2000
All human race, from China to Peru, / Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue. —Thomas Warton
October 20, 2000
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. —J.R.R. Tolkien
October 19, 2000
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. —Lou Holtz
October 18, 2000
The imagination must not be given too much material. It must be denied food so that it can work for itself. —Macedonlo de la Torre
October 17, 2000
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. —Lord Chandos
October 16, 2000
He used to define justice as “a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved.” —Diogenes Laertius on Aristotle
October 15, 2000
Who are a little wise the best fools be. —John Donne
October 14, 2000
The good are better made by ill, / As odours crushed are sweeter still. —Samuel Rogers
In the medieval cloisters, almost any brother could grind the pigment, but only a few penned the manuscripts. —Upper & Lower Case
October 11, 2000
Of every noble work the silent part is best, / Of all expression that which can not be expressed. —William Wetmore Story
October 10, 2000
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. —Henri-Frederic Amiel
October 9, 2000
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar / Showed him the gentleman and scholar. —Robert Burns
October 8, 2000
The tree of deepest root is found / Least willing still to quit the ground. —Mrs. Thrale
October 7, 2000
Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. —Nadia Boulanger
Where bastard Freedom waves / The fustian flag in mockery over slaves. —Thomas Moore
October 4, 2000
The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine. —Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz
October 3, 2000
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorn. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. —William Jennings Bryan
October 2, 2000
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. —Henri Matisse
October 1, 2000
Peril as a possession / ’T is good to bear, / Danger disintegrates satiety. —Emily Dickinson
