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Quotations of the Day: September 2004
September 30, 2004
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends. —Truman Capote
September 29, 2004
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. —Winston Churchill
September 28, 2004
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. —Everett M. Dirksen
September 27, 2004
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal—they have to live off each other—while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats. —Will Rogers
September 26, 2004
Oh, I got plenty o’ nuthin’ / An’ nuthin’s plenty for me. —Ira Gershwin
September 25, 2004
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, 2004
How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. —F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 23, 2004
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier. —Bruce Springsteen
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. —Henry L. Stimson
September 20, 2004
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. —Larry McMurtry
September 19, 2004
We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them. —Blaise Pascal
September 18, 2004
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them. —Joseph Story
September 17, 2004
There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish and others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. —Warren E. Burger
September 16, 2004
The poet’s aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. —Horace
September 15, 2004
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. —James Fenimore Cooper
September 14, 2004
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is. —Allan Bloom
September 13, 2004
To be scared is such a release from all the logy weight of procrastination, of dallying and pokiness! You burn into work. It is as though gravity were removed and you walked lightly to the moon like an angel. —Brenda Ueland
September 12, 2004
Those who work their minds rule; those who work with their backs are ruled. —Chinese proverb
September 11, 2004
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13
September 10, 2004
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again. —Carl Van Doren
September 9, 2004
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. —John Reed
September 8, 2004
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. —Charles Baudelaire
September 7, 2004
It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government. —Texas Declaration of Independence
September 6, 2004
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. —Jane Addams
September 5, 2004
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. —John Newton Mitchell
September 4, 2004
The New England conscience … does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just stops you from enjoying it. —Cleveland Amory
September 3, 2004
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper—whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. —Sarah Orne Jewett
September 2, 2004
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. —H.L. Mencken
September 1, 2004
Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. —Ann Richards
