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Quotations of the Day: December 2000
December 31, 2000
Thus times do shift,—each thing his turn does hold; / New things succeed, as former things grow old. —Robert Herrick
December 30, 2000
It’s the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon. —Patricia Linden
December 29, 2000
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. —Jean Genet
December 28, 2000
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. —Tom Stoppard
December 27, 2000
The child is entitled to receive education, which shall be free and compulsory at least in the elementary stages. —United Nations Resolution
December 26, 2000
We recommend that no one eat more than two tons of turkey—that’s what it would take to poison someone. —Elizabeth Whelan
December 25, 2000
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. —Pope Paul VI
December 24, 2000
When Peace shall over all the earth / Its ancient splendors fling / And the whole world send back the song / Which now the angels sing. —Edmund Hamilton Sears
December 23, 2000
At Christmas I no more desire a rose / Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; / But like of each thing that in season grows. —William Shakespeare
December 22, 2000
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world. —Wilford O. Cross
December 21, 2000
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. —John Lyly
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. —Judith Martin (“Miss Manners”)
December 13, 2000
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men. —Plutarch
December 12, 2000
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
