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Quotations of the Day: March 2005
March 31, 2005
The moving finger writes; and having writ, / Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, / Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. —Edward FitzGerald
March 30, 2005
There’s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. —John F. Kennedy
March 29, 2005
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It’s just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. —Simon Hoggart
March 28, 2005
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. —Dwight David Eisenhower
March 27, 2005
Celerity is never more admired / Than by the negligent. —William Shakespeare
March 26, 2005
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself. —Tennessee Williams
March 25, 2005
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. —Gloria Steinem
March 24, 2005
If you want a decision, go to the point of danger. —James M. Gavin
March 23, 2005
I think that the most important thing a woman can have—next to talent, of course—is her hairdresser. —Joan Crawford
March 22, 2005
To me “bipartisan foreign policy” means a mutual effort, under our indispensable two-Party system, to unite our official voice at the water’s edge so that America speaks with maximum authority against those who would divide and conquer us and the free world. —Arthur Vandenberg
March 21, 2005
A Mother’s hardest to forgive. / Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, / Ripe on a plate. And while you live, / Relentlessly she understands you. —Phyllis McGinley
March 20, 2005
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B.F. Skinner
March 19, 2005
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. —Earl Warren
March 18, 2005
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. —Grover Cleveland
March 17, 2005
Irish poets, learn your trade, / Sing whatever is well made, / Scorn the sort now growing up / All out of shape from toe to top. —William Butler Yeats
March 16, 2005
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. —James Madison
Come all you rounders if you want to hear / A story ’bout a brave engineer; / Casey Jones, that was the rounder’s name / On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame. —Unknown
March 13, 2005
Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. —George Seferis
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires. —June Jordan
March 10, 2005
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. —John Maynard Keynes
March 9, 2005
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego. —Bobby Fischer
March 8, 2005
Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers. —William Booth
March 7, 2005
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. —Polish Proverb
March 6, 2005
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
March 5, 2005
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. —Lauren Bacall
March 4, 2005
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. —Vince Lombardi
March 3, 2005
I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight. —Richard Wright
March 2, 2005
We are now in the Me Decade—seeing the upward roll of … the third great religious wave in American history. —Tom Wolfe
March 1, 2005
I will catch Christ with a greased worm, / And when the Prince of Darkness stalks / My bloodstream to its Stygian term… / On water the Man-Fisher walks. —Robert Lowell
