Saturday, June 14, 2008

Quotation Saturday

It's Quotation Saturday again - where did the week go? Time is flying by faster and faster these days. Is it that darn pesky "old age" thing, or is it just because my life is more and more interesting now? Perhaps a bit of both. I'm thinking maybe more that "interesting" choice than that other, far more icky, choice.

Not "interesting" as in the ancient Chinese curse "Maybe you live in interesting times," but "interesting" as in "cool."

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." -- William F. Buckley

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." --Emma Goldman

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." --Margaart Bonnano

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." --Doug Floyd

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." --Elbert Hubbard

"What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households." --Sara Josepha Hale

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain." --James Baldwin

"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams

"When your heart speaks, take good notes." --Judith Campbell

"A drop of ink may make a million think." --Lord Byron

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards." --Mark Twain (one of my favorite quotations)

"Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance." --Bennett Cerf

"I can't understand why people are frighted of new ideas. I'm frighted of the old ones." --John Cage

"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match." --Ingrid Bengis

"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly." --Carl Rogers

"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." --Dr. Bernie Siegel

"Man is free. The coward makes himself cowardly. The hero makes himself heroic." --Jean-Paul Sartre

"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." --A.H. Weiler

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." --Thomas Edison

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." --Tallulah Bankhead

"A sense of humor is a sense of proportion." --Kahlil Gibran

"Our job is not to straighten each other out, but to help each other up." --Neva Cole

"There is nothing more horrible than imagination without taste." --Goethe

"Imagination is the eye of the soul." --Joseph Joubert

". . . nothing for preserving the body like having no heart." --John Petit-Senn

"Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author." --Tivi (West African) proverb

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." --Mark Twain

And, finally:

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream