famous quotes

[letric]

In a time when both rights and reason and under attack, the life and writing of
Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.

Christopher Hitchens, marvels at Thomas Paine's 1791 Declaration on the Rights of Man, which
was inspired by Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution and is probably the first written
defence of man's inalienable rights.

[letric]

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well
Amos Bronson Alcott.

When a thing has be said and said well, have no scruple.
Take it and copy it.

[letric]

Quotations have firm roots in the traditions of the past, absorbing ancient proverbs and well-known sayings,
but it goes further, embracing all aspects of popular and literary culture and modern literary aphorisms.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

[letric]

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the
tale as 'twas said to me

-Sir Walter Scott

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or non-fiction;
there is only narrative

[letric]

Sic ego nec sine tecum uiuere possum

I can't live with you, I can't live without you. Lovely!

[letric]

No one gopssips about other people's secret
virtues
Betram Russell (On Education (1926).

It is a public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret.

[letric]

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in their arrangement of their attire.
-Charles Dickens

Some cause happiness wherever the go;
others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde.

[letric]

No one gopssips about other people's secret
virtues
Betram Russell (On Education (1926).

It is a public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing
else, and root out everything else.
-Charles Dickens, Hard Times.

[letric]

-Charles Dickens

I can't live with you, I can't live without you. Lovely!

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man's has many - not on your past
misfortune, of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens

[letric]

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before
the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and
to pray for clemency and forgiveness..
-Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President 1861-1865

[dancerboy]

An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.





DANCERBOY

[letric]

An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.

DANCERBOY

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears what is true.
(James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S. Elliot

[Mamabelle]

Animals are such agreeable friend. They ask no questions, they pass no criticism. George Eliot

[letric]

Animals are such agreeable friend. They ask no questions, they pass no criticism. George Eliot

Mankind's true moral test, (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of
its attitudes toward those who are at its mercy: animals.

The Unbelievable Lightness of Being (1984) pt. 7. ch.2
Milan Kundera (1929-

[Mamabelle]

Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.

[letric]

Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.

Life is to be lived, not endured.

[letric]

When you get to be a celebrity, some people make
a big deal out of the fact that perhaps you're different in
some way

So says Johnny Mathis.

The singer talks candidly about his battle with alcohol, dealing with
racial and sexual prejudice - and posing naked for Playgirl magazine.

[letric]

Owner of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection,
they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them
with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusdion that they are gods.

- Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer

[letric]

The British nation is unique in this respect:
they are the only people who like to be told
how bad things are, and who like to be told
the worst.
_Winston Churchill

[letric]

Who does not know the first law of historical writing is truth - Cicero

[letric]

Religion is an all important matter in a public school for girls.
Whatever people say, it is the mother's safeguard, and the
husband's, What we ask of education is not that girls should
think, but that they should believe.
Note sur L'Establishment D'couen, Correspondance de Napoleon ler (1858-69).