Quotes, December 2005
01. It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- Winston Churchill
02. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
- Thomas Fuller
03. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West
04. The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake.
- Henry L. Mencken
05. If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Alva Edison
06. It is not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
07. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
- Michel De Montaigne
08. They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Brooks Adams
09. In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Walt Whitman
10. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- Katharine Hepburn
11. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
12. Devils are not so black as they are painted.
- Thomas Lodge
13. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
- Alexander Pope
14. There is always room at the top.
- Daniel Webster
15. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl Buck
16. Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite.
- Joe Moore
17. There is more credit in being abused by fools than praised by rogues.
- F. E. Smith
18. I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
- William Somerset Maugham
19. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
- Thomas Browne
20. I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
- Jean Kerr
21. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No quotes Dec 22-28 due to holiday in Rome.
29. Veni, vidi, vici
[I came, I saw, I conquered]
- Julius Caesar
30. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
31. Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
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