November 30, 2011

Woodrow Wilson: The flag...

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
/Woodrow Wilson/

November 28, 2011

Stephen Jay Gould: Few tragedies...

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
/Stephen Jay Gould/

November 25, 2011

Matt Damon: If anybody...

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
/Matt Damon/

November 24, 2011

Jessi Lane Adams: Walking through...

Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

John Walters: Life is...

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
/John Walters/

November 23, 2011

William Osler: There is...

There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter-loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and is totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the artless heart of child or man, without egoism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
/William Osler/

Abraham Cahan: The orthodox...

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
/Abraham Cahan/

November 22, 2011

Oscar Wilde: Fathers should...

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
/Oscar Wilde/

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Every where...

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
/Harriet Ann Jacobs/

November 20, 2011

Harriet Beecher Stowe: To be...

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
/Harriet Beecher Stowe/

Jim Walsh: With this...

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
/Jim Walsh/

George Carlin: The day...

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
/George Carlin/

November 18, 2011

Giacomo Leopardi: No human...

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
/Giacomo Leopardi/

November 16, 2011

Thomas Henry Huxley: My pet...

My pet aphorism suffer fools gladly should be the guide of the Assistant Secretary, who, during the fortnight of his activity, has more little vanities and rivalries to smooth over and conciliate than other people meet with in a lifetime. Now you do not suffer fools gladly; on the contrary, you gladly make fools suffer. I do not say you are wrong; No tu quoque'; but that is where the danger of the explosion lies'; not in regard to the larger business of the Association.
/Thomas Henry Huxley/

November 15, 2011

Tom Schulman: We don't...

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
/Tom Schulman/

November 14, 2011

Havelock Ellis: However well...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
/Havelock Ellis/

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Life is...

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

Khalil Gibran: Life without...

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
/Khalil Gibran/

November 12, 2011

Maude Adams: Life is...

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
/Maude Adams/

Paul Tournier: Recounting of...

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
/Paul Tournier/

November 09, 2011

Immanuel Kant: Science is...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
/Immanuel Kant/

Horatio Nelson: I owe...

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
/Horatio Nelson/

November 07, 2011

Walter Raleigh: Remember, that...

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
/Walter Raleigh/

November 05, 2011

Akhmad Kadyrov: In 2001-2002,...

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
/Akhmad Kadyrov/

November 04, 2011

Norman Mailer: Because there...

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
/Norman Mailer/

November 01, 2011

Jean Toomer: Men try...

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
/Jean Toomer/

Samuel Johnson: Life is...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
/Samuel Johnson/