Quotations Update

Today's Quotations:

Barbara Charline Jordan


I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say 'What is my exciting thing for today' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

Publilius Syrus


It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_


There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Aristotle


It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

George Santayana


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation


We are what we love, not what loves us.

Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade


A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!

Norman Cousins


A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.

Garry Kasparov, Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg, September 13, 2004


It�s more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia�s problems in 15 minutes

Jalal ud-Din Rumi


I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying

Scottish Proverb


A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

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