QUOTATION OF THE DAY

 

 

13/06

 

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not
to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
--Marcel Proust, French Novelist 1871-1922

 

12/06

 

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire - French Historian 1694-1778

 

11/06

 

Knowing what you can not do is more important than
knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
--Lucille Ball, American Actress 1911 - 1989

 

10/06

 

The trouble with most people is that they think with
their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
--William J. Durant, American Historian, Essayist

 

09/06

 

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
--Alexander Pope, British Poet 1688 - 1744

 

08/06

 

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years
that counts! -- Adlai Stevenson

 

07/06

 

People who treat other people as less than human
must not be surprised when the bread they have cast
on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
--James Baldwin, American Author 1924-1987

 

06/06

 

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who
believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
--Joseph Addison - British Essayist 1672-1719

 

05/06

 

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
--Epicurus , Greek Philosopher

 

04/06

 

Find out what you like doing best and get
someone to pay you for doing it.
--Katherine Whitehorn

 

03/06

 

Never judge someone by who he's in love with;
judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising
glance at his pals. --Cynthia Heimel  

 

02/06

 

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your
time and annoys the pig.—Anonymous

03/06

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

 

31/05

 

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
--Erma Bombeck  

 

 

28/05

 

People demand freedom of speech as a
compensation for the freedom of thought
which they never use. –Kierkegaard

 

 

 

25/05

 

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

 

24/05

 

Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda  , character in the movie.
The Empire Strikes Back

23/05

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

22/05

 

Call it what you will, incentives are what
get people to work harder-Nikita Khruschev

 

21/05

 

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody
to go to hell in his own way. --Robert Frost

 

18/05

 

Always do right; this will gratify some people
and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain

 

16/05

 

Education is a progressive discovery
of our own ignorance. --Will Durant

 

 

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