Quotes, July 2004
01. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- George Bernard Shaw
02. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
-Alexander Hamilton
03. Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.
- Golda Meir
04. The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.
- George Washington
***** No quotes July 5-11 due to computer problems! *****
12. Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?" Then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
- Charles Schulz, (from "Peanuts")
13. We have women in the military, but they don’t put us in the front lines. They don’t know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms."
- Elayne Boosler
14. How can anyone govern a country that has 246 different types of cheese?
- Charles de Gaulle, describing France
15. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
16. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
17. Festina lente
[Hasten slowly]
- Suetonius
18. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
***** No quotes July 19 - 25 due to holiday! *****
26. How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!
- Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"
27. Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d’etre obligé d’en pleurer
[I hurry to laugh at everything, so that I won’t have to cry]
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (from "The Barber of Seville")
28. There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
- Mark Knopfler, from "Brothers in Arms"
29. You can’t be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa
30. …and this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
- Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"
31. No one can be caught in places he doesn’t visit.
- Danish Proverb
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