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Quotations of the Day: January 2003
January 31, 2003
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. —Norman Mailer
January 30, 2003
The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interred with their bones. —William Shakespeare
January 29, 2003
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material. —Anton Chekhov
January 28, 2003
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable. —Sir Francis Drake
January 27, 2003
One must not make oneself cheap here—that is a cardinal point—or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
January 26, 2003
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.” —Angela Davis
January 25, 2003
My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. / He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.” —Robert Frost
January 24, 2003
Heav’n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn’d, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d. —William Congreve
January 23, 2003
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. —Stendhal
January 22, 2003
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. —U Thant
January 21, 2003
We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. —T.S. Eliot
January 20, 2003
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? —Benjamin Harrison
January 19, 2003
Once I built a railroad, made it run, / Made it race against time … / Now it’s done, / Buddy, can you spare a dime? —Yip Harburg
January 18, 2003
If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. —Daniel Webster
January 17, 2003
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free. —Muhammad Ali
January 16, 2003
I wanted the gold, and I sought it; / I scrabbled and mucked like a slave, / Was it famine or scurvy—I fought it; / I hurled my youth into a grave. —Robert W. Service
January 15, 2003
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon…. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 14, 2003
The ministers from their damn smug pulpits, the business men—the heroics about war—my country right or wrong—oh infinities of them! Oh the tragic farce of the world. —John Dos Passos
January 13, 2003
I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. —T.S. Eliot
January 12, 2003
Wild honey smells of freedom / The dust—of sunlight / The mouth of a young girl, like a violet / But gold—smells of nothing. —Anna Akhmatova
January 11, 2003
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. —Crystal Eastman
January 10, 2003
It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. —Thomas Jefferson
January 9, 2003
The child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence. —Simone de Beauvoir
January 8, 2003
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! —William James
January 7, 2003
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. —Mother Maribel
January 6, 2003
I’ll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. —Carl Sandburg
January 5, 2003
I’ve always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall. —Judith Jamison
January 4, 2003
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. —Germaine Greer
January 3, 2003
You have another little drink, and I’ll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here. —Irving Ravetch
January 2, 2003
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them. —Arthur Schopenhauer
January 1, 2003
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all…. If they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy. —J.D. Salinger
