Quotes of the day from previous years:
| That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almostcertain to befalse. |
| ~Paul Valéry ~ |
| TheRevolution was effected before thewar commenced. The Revolution was in theminds andhearts of thepeople; achange in theirreligious sentiments, of theirduties and obligations... Thisradical change in theprinciples,opinions, sentiments, andaffections of the people was therealAmerican Revolution. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| There is no such thing as a normal period ofhistory.Normality is afiction ofeconomictextbooks. |
| ~Joan Robinson ~ |
| We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, ofliberty ofconscience onall subjects, and of theright offree inquiry and privatejudgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges infact! |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| Awork is nevercompleted except by someaccident such as weariness,satisfaction, theneed to deliver, ordeath: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of innertransformations. |
| ~Paul Valéry ~ |
| There isnothing which Idread so much as a division of therepublic into two greatparties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures inopposition to each other. This, in my humbleapprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatestpoliticalevil underour Constitution. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| Virtue is not alwaysamiable.Integrity is sometimes ruined byprejudices and bypassions. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| Let every declamation turn upon thebeauty ofliberty andvirtue, and thedeformity,turpitude, andmalignity, ofslavery andvice. Let the public disputations become researches into the grounds andnature andends ofgovernment, and the means of preserving thegood and demolishing theevil. Let the dialogues, and all the exercises, become the instruments of impressing on the tendermind, and of spreading and distributing far and wide, theideas ofright and the sensations offreedom. In a word, let every sluice ofknowledge be opened and set a-flowing. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| Metaphysicians andpoliticians maydisputeforever, but they will never find any othermoralprinciple orfoundation of rule orobedience, than theconsent ofgovernors andgoverned. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
| Dreamsgrowholy put inaction;work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and invain. |
| ~Adelaide Anne Procter ~ |
| Thenumber of those who undergo thefatigue ofjudging forthemselves is very small indeed! |
| ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~ |
| The best way I can describe it is: afterthe show was over, at a party or any — any kind social gathering, if one of us bumped into each other, that was it, that was theend of thenight. We just sat with the person all night long — and that was it. You apologized to the people that you were with, but they had tounderstand you had met somebody special to you, and you were going to talk to that person for the rest of the night. And that's the way it worked. It's certainly the way it worked with all of us. It's just the way it is. |
| ~Matthew Perry ~ |
| Theright of anation to kill atyrant, in cases ofnecessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless thepeople havesense,spirit andhonesty enough to establish and support aconstitution guarded at all points against thetyranny of the one,the few, andthe many. |
| ~John Adams ~ |
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I turned myself from a 97 pound weakling into the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man. ~Charles Atlas, born that day.
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.
~Grace Slick (date of birth)
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
~Grace Slick (date of birth)
I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad. ~Michael Winner
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. ~Paul Valéry
God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely. ~Paul Valéry
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet. ~Adelaide Anne Procter
Children should beeducated and instructed in theprinciples offreedom. ~John Adams
You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Man's social happiness all rests on us:
Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Never say more than is necessary. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the Organ,
And entered into mine.
It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
~Adelaide Anne Procter ~
| The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. |
| ~John Adams ~ |