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Quotations of the Day: August 2003
August 31, 2003
Summertime and the living is easy, / Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high. —Ira Gershwin
August 30, 2003
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. —W.H. Auden
August 29, 2003
Wake in our breast the living fires, / The holy faith that warmed our sires; / Thy hand hath made our nation free; / To die for her is serving Thee. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
August 28, 2003
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 27, 2003
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. —C. S. Forester
August 26, 2003
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. —Georg Groddeck
August 25, 2003
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. —William M. Evarts
August 24, 2003
Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. —Georges Simenon
August 23, 2003
It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul. —William Ernest Henley
August 22, 2003
People Who Do things exceed my endurance; / God, for a man that solicits insurance! —Dorothy Parker
August 21, 2003
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? —Aubrey Beardsley
August 20, 2003
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. —Eliel Saarinen
August 19, 2003
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more. —Ursula K. Le Guin
August 18, 2003
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. —Ronald Reagan
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. —Edna Ferber
August 14, 2003
Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o’er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Save that they did not last? —Letitia Elizabeth Landon
August 13, 2003
Given a choice between hearing my daughter say “I’m pregnant” or “I used a condom,” most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself. —Joycelyn Elders
August 12, 2003
I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. —Mary Roberts Rinehart
August 11, 2003
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. —Louise Bogan
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought / Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. / The wise for cure on exercise depend; / God never made his work for man to mend. —John Dryden
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. —Mario Puzo
August 6, 2003
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. —Andy Warhol
August 5, 2003
I, the restless one; the circler of circles; / Herdsman and roper of stars, who could not capture / The secret of self. —Conrad Aiken
August 4, 2003
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. —Elie Wiesel
August 3, 2003
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting, in some countries. —Mike Myers
August 2, 2003
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,… / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. —William Shakespeare
August 1, 2003
An open foe may prove a curse, / But a pretended friend is worse. —John Gay
