Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:24 pm

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

President Franklin D.Roosevelt--(1882-1945)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:32 pm

Ever tried.Ever failed.No matter.Try again.Fail again.Fail Better.

Samuel Beckett---Irish-born playwright and author--(1906-1989)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:28 am

There never was a good war, or a bad peace......

Ben Franklin

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:07 pm

As I would not be a slave,so I would not be a master.This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln---(1809-1865)

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:50 pm

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

W.H.Auden,British poet--(1907-1973)

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:09 pm

If you would not be forgotten,as soon as you are dead and rotten,either write things worth reading,or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin-----(1703-1790)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:05 am

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Mark Twain

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:09 pm

Love has the quality of informing almost everything--even one's work

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

New Zealander author and educator (1908-1984)

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:38 pm

The charm,one might say the genius of memory,is that it is choosy,chancy and temperamental:it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside,chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen--Irish-born author-(1899-1973)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:59 pm

Taste.You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing.You can't send away for it in a catalogue.And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Rosalind Russell--American actress-(1911-1976)

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:36 pm

"If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall."

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:21 pm

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Horace Walpole,Fourth Erl of Orford---English auther ( 1717-1797)

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:43 pm

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler--British author (1835-1902)

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:55 pm

Never practice what you preach.If you're going to practice it,why preach it?

Lincoln Steffens-American journalist-reformer (1866-1936)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:21 pm

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:16 pm

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James---American philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:45 am

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

Herbert Henry Asquith

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:18 am

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
-Napoleon

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:28 pm

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Jean Paul Richter--German author--(1763-1825)

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:58 pm

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."

-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf