It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid
with them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Fortune Quote #2250
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when
wisdom thou hast mastered. -- Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky
wisdom thou hast mastered. -- Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky
Friday, September 28, 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Fortune Quote #2248
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we
do in our opinion of ourselves. -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
do in our opinion of ourselves. -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Fortune Quote #2247
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never
laughs. -- Aurobindo Ghose, Indian philosopher (1872-1950)
laughs. -- Aurobindo Ghose, Indian philosopher (1872-1950)
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Fortune Quote #2245
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is
sure. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
sure. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Fortune Quote #2243
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and
he does it without destroying something else. -- John Updike,
writer (1932- )
he does it without destroying something else. -- John Updike,
writer (1932- )
Friday, September 21, 2018
Fortune Quote #2242
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe
to do. -- Galileo Galilei
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe
to do. -- Galileo Galilei
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Fortune Quote #2241
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport
than she makes me? -- Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
than she makes me? -- Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Fortune Quote #2240
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,
is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. --
Thomas Carlyle
is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. --
Thomas Carlyle
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Fortune Quote #2239
The statesman's task is the hear God's footsteps marching through history,
and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past. -- Otto
von Bismarck
and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past. -- Otto
von Bismarck
Monday, September 17, 2018
Fortune Quote #2238
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. --
Chinese proverb
Chinese proverb
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Fortune Quote #2237
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain
that sustain life, not the top. -- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
that sustain life, not the top. -- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Fortune Quote #2236
It is the eternal struggle between two principles--right and
wrong--throughout the world... It is the same spirit that says "You toil
and work and earn bread--and I'll eat it." No matter what in shape it
comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of
his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of
men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical
principle! -- Abraham Lincoln
wrong--throughout the world... It is the same spirit that says "You toil
and work and earn bread--and I'll eat it." No matter what in shape it
comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of
his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of
men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical
principle! -- Abraham Lincoln
Friday, September 14, 2018
Fortune Quote #2235
I fear death... (but) Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so
it couldn't be too difficult for me. -- Joseph Heller
it couldn't be too difficult for me. -- Joseph Heller
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Fortune Quote #2234
It is not the teacher's task to teach interesting things... but to make
interesting the things that must be taught. -- C.S. Slichter
interesting the things that must be taught. -- C.S. Slichter
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Fortune Quote #2233
The responsibility of the educated is to prepare for what has never
been. -- Paul Valery
been. -- Paul Valery
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Fortune Quote #2232
...no person is born free and thus schools must foster skills required for
this essential freedom. A free mind is one that can think and
choose. -- Anton E. Lawson
this essential freedom. A free mind is one that can think and
choose. -- Anton E. Lawson
Monday, September 10, 2018
Fortune Quote #2231
That'll also give it a more Russian feel. You know, big tractor, big
potato, E flat. -- Robert Parker, TACIT Music Director
potato, E flat. -- Robert Parker, TACIT Music Director
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Fortune Quote #2230
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. --
Charles F. Kettering
Charles F. Kettering
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Friday, September 7, 2018
Fortune Quote #2228
Mike: "If I weren't a mathematician, maybe I would be a geologist."
Deborah: "In other words, maybe if things weren't the way they are
now, they would be different?"
Deborah: "In other words, maybe if things weren't the way they are
now, they would be different?"
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Fortune Quote #2227
Youth -- not a time of life but a state of mind... a predominance of
courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of
ease. -- Robert F. Kennedy
courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of
ease. -- Robert F. Kennedy
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Fortune Quote #2226
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your
acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard
Bach, "Illusions"
acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard
Bach, "Illusions"
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Monday, September 3, 2018
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Fortune Quote #2223
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. --
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Fortune Quote #2222
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and
I say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"
I say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"
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