Saturday, May 31, 2008

My Fav Quotes!!

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others." - Winston Churchill
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -Madame de Stael, writer (1766-1817)

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing

Famous Slights - "What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement." - Fred Allen

Observations - "Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away so knowledge sort of accumulates...." - Dr A. Lawrence Lowell

Observations - "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Caron de Beaumarchais

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist (1841-1935)

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Daily Quote: "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - - Alfred Korzybski

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. -Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)


For what are stars but asterisks. To point a human life? -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)

Famous Slights - "What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement." - Fred Allen

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