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Quotations of the Day: September 2003
September 30, 2003
Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. —Sinclair Lewis
September 29, 2003
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings. —Pierre Corneille
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. —Théophile Gautier
September 26, 2003
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. —Martin Heidegger
September 25, 2003
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. —Barbara Walters
September 24, 2003
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. —A.P. Herbert
September 23, 2003
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. —Melvin Maddocks
September 22, 2003
Emancipates the Union from the monstrous name / Whose infamy dishonored / Even the great Founders in their graves … / He saves the Union and the dream goes on. —Archibald MacLeish
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. —Lord Acton
September 19, 2003
It may be—I hope it is—redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable. —Sir William Golding
September 18, 2003
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. —Isaiah 2:4
September 17, 2003
Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? —Daniel Webster
September 16, 2003
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. —Lauren Bacall
September 15, 2003
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. —Robert Benchley
September 14, 2003
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov’s dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. —Richard Dean Rosen
September 13, 2003
Today, music heralds … the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. —Jacques Attali
September 12, 2003
With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer. —Anonymous
September 11, 2003
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, / For that were stupid and irrational; / But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, / And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. —Joanna Baillie
September 10, 2003
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. —Thomas Jefferson
September 9, 2003
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. —Bruce Grocott
September 8, 2003
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. —William James
September 7, 2003
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal. —Elia Kazan
September 6, 2003
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved. —Russell Lynes
September 5, 2003
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums. —Arthur Koestler
September 4, 2003
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle-roof perforated. —Henry David Thoreau
September 3, 2003
The true poet is just such a fortunate creation as the elusive crab. He is born wary and is frequently in retreat because he is a protector of the human spirit. —Loren C. Eiseley
September 2, 2003
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. —Walter Lippmann
September 1, 2003
What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more ... a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned. —Thomas Jefferson
