My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
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I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
~quotes on Books Reading by Laurence Sterne Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.
~sayings on Baseball by Saul Steinberg Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~quotations on Optimism Pessimism by Oscar Wilde Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.
~famous latin quote by Jane Mersky Leder Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~quote about Friendship by Aristotle Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~quotes on Justice by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
~sayings on History by Robert Penn Warren, Segregation Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~quotations on Belief by Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
~famous latin quote by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.
~saying about latin by Author Unknown If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
~quote about Music by Anonymous Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~quotes on Patience by St. Augustine Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.
~sayings on Thrift by Francis H. Sisson What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
~quotations on Attitude by Buddha While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
~famous latin quote by Dorothea Lange When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different
~saying about latin by Bill Austin Action is the real measure of intelligence.
~quote about Growth by Napoleon Hill Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
~quotes on Politics by William E. Gladstone, 1866 Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
~sayings on Prayer by Jonathan Swift I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
~quotations on Country by Sydney Smith We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is Cut down hours; cut down hours, until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work.
~famous latin quote by Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions b Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
~saying about latin by Henny Youngman Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
~quote about Civilization by Richard Bach A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
~quotes on Politics by Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900 Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
~sayings on Vegetarianism by Leonardo da Vinci Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~quotations on Travel by Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt When Jesus comes, the shadows depart.
~famous latin quote by Author unknown, inscription on a Scottish castle The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
~saying about latin by Francis Quarles, Emblems Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sickAlthough we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of t
~quote about Get Well Soon by Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977 It is not enough to merely leave Egypt. To truly be free of Mitzrayim's grasp, you must emerge from the waters and dance on dry land
~quotes on Dance by Tziporah Suffering is above, not belowAnd everyone thinks that suffering is belowAnd everyone wants to rise
~sayings on Adversity by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.
~quotations on Life by The X-Files Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than helped by criticism.
~famous latin quote by People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
~saying about latin by Thomas Szasz, Personal Conduct, The Second Sin, 1973 Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only order that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in harmonizing the most antagonistic elements in society.
~quote about Justice by Emma Goldman, Anarchism To me faith means not worrying.
~quotes on Faith by John Dewey
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