Quotes, March 2006
06. I call architecture frozen music.
- Goethe
07. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
- Will Rogers
08. God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God’s will. ‘Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.
- Martin Luther
09. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
10. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter Drucker
11. Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
- Jean Kerr
12. Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
- John Dewey
13. Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
14. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
- Joseph Joubert
15. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner
16. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
- Queen Victoria
17. It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
- Tacitus
18. I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
- Mario Cuomo
19. If you don’t think that logic is a good method for determining what to believe, make an attempt to convince me of that without using logic. No one has even bothered to try yet.
- Brett Lemoine
20. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
21. He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
- Michel De Montaigne
22. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
23. Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
24. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
25. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Mark Twain
26. The proper study of mankind is man.
- Alexander Pope
27. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger
28. Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
29. Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton
30. The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
- William Somerset Maugham
31. It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Charlotte Bronte
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