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Quotations of the Day: November 2005
November 30, 2005
And, he gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two Blades of Grass to grow upon a Spot of Ground where only one grew before; would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential Service to his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift
November 29, 2005
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. —Louisa May Alcott
November 28, 2005
Then every man of every clime, / That prays in his distress, / Prays to the human form divine / Love Mercy Pity Peace. —William Blake
November 27, 2005
The wretch, concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung. —Sir Walter Scott
November 26, 2005
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ, / The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. —William Cowper
November 25, 2005
The uniformity of earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. —Lewis Thomas
November 24, 2005
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained. —Baruch Spinoza
November 23, 2005
An elegant sufficiency, content, / Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, / Ease and alternate labour, useful life, / Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven! —James Thomson
November 22, 2005
If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. —Abigail Adams
November 21, 2005
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. —Vita Sackville-West
November 20, 2005
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. —Robert F. Kennedy
November 19, 2005
I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering. —Thomas Jefferson
November 18, 2005
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. —Clarence S. Day
November 17, 2005
They make a wilderness and call it peace. —Tacitus
November 16, 2005
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.… To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. —Henry James
November 15, 2005
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; / not in silence, but restraint. —Marianne Moore
November 14, 2005
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. —Terry Waite
November 13, 2005
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. —Saint Augustine
November 12, 2005
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong. —Harry A. Blackmun
November 11, 2005
Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November 10, 2005
It breaks his heart that kings must murder still, / That all his hours of travail here for men / Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace / That he may sleep upon his hill again? —Vachel Lindsay
November 9, 2005
Now I have entered the year without words. / I note the queer entrance and the exact voltage. —Anne Sexton
November 8, 2005
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ’tis the only thing in this world that lasts.… ’Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for. —Margaret Mitchell
November 7, 2005
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. —Billy Graham
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals. —Ida M. Tarbell
November 4, 2005
I don’t think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. —John F. Kennedy
November 3, 2005
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, / Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. —William Cullen Bryant
November 2, 2005
Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty’s name have been exceeded only by those committed in God’s name. —Mills E. Godwin
November 1, 2005
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau
