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Quotations of the Day: November 2004
November 30, 2004
Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. —Mark Twain
November 29, 2004
I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. —C.S. Lewis
November 28, 2004
In this temple / As in the hearts of the people / For whom he saved the Union / The memory of Abraham Lincoln / Is enshrined forever. —Royal Cortissoz
November 27, 2004
A leaky faucet, a barking dog—those are things you tolerate. —Candace Gingrich
November 26, 2004
The chief cause of problems is solutions. —Eric Sevareid
November 25, 2004
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. —Joseph Wood Krutch
November 24, 2004
The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don’t want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. —Margaret C. Anderson
November 23, 2004
The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars. —Ardel Wray
November 22, 2004
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize, or accept another’s dogmatism. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 21, 2004
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. —Voltaire
November 20, 2004
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. —Robert C. Byrd
November 19, 2004
There is as much of a chance of repealing the eighteenth amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. This country is for temperance and prohibition and it is going to continue to elect members of Congress who believe in that. —Morris Sheppard
November 18, 2004
Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream. —Sir William Gilbert
November 17, 2004
A dead martyr is just another corpse. —Leo V. Gordon
November 16, 2004
I hate to see de evenin’ sun go down, / Hate to see de evenin’ sun go down, / ’Cause ma baby, he done lef’ dis town. —W.C. Handy
November 15, 2004
My solution to the problem [of North Vietnam] would be to tell them frankly that they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. —Curtis E. LeMay
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. —Louis D. Brandeis
November 12, 2004
Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period. —Auguste Rodin
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide. —John Dryden
November 9, 2004
For in this yellow grave of sand and sea / A calling for colour calls with the wind / That’s grave and gay as grave and sea / Sleeping on either hand. —Dylan Thomas
November 8, 2004
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country’s cause. —Alexander Pope
November 7, 2004
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. —Albert Camus
November 6, 2004
But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible. —Thomas Jefferson
November 5, 2004
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil—far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word “human” disappears from the race. —Jill Tweedie
November 4, 2004
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. —Edmund Burke
November 3, 2004
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. —E.B. White
November 2, 2004
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. —John F. Kennedy
November 1, 2004
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. —Nathan Hale
