Register opinions
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
-Jonathan Swift, satirist (30 Nov 1667-1745)
Getting older...
"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
-Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918-2007)
Electrical Spark
"Kindness is an electrical spark of life that runs through all kingdoms and has a reciprocal action when shown to others."
~ Joe Hayes
Stand before
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
-Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)
Never to..
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
-Steven Brust, novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)
Nothing so useless..
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
-Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)
..in every small boy
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
-George Wald, scientist and Nobel laureate (18 Nov 1906-1997)
Not necessary...
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926)
Encircle both...
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, /
or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, /
so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (10 Nov 1759-1805)
Buying and selling
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.
-Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)
Highest thoughts...
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
-John Keats, poet (31 Oct 1795-1821)
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