February 2012
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“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the...”
– Henri Matisse
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“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”
– Mary Hirsch
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“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as...”
– Richard Feynman
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“I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real...”
– E. Joseph Cossman
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“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet...”
– Konrad Lorenz
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“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
– Mae West
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“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all...”
– Alexander Pope
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“Whatever limits us, we call Fate.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
– Publilius Syrus
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“While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any...”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds...”
– Kristin Hunter
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“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you...”
– Samuel Johnson
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“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not...”
– Thomas Paine
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“Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep...”
– Lawana Blackwell
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“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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“In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”
– Meister Eckhart
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“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how...”
– Plato
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“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
– Lester B. Pearson
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“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a...”
– Diane Ackerman
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“Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or...”
– Epicurus
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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say...”
– William Shakespeare
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”
– Jean Anouilh
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“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the...”
– Wendy Wasserstein
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“Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.”
– Baltasar Gracian
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty....”
– Bertrand Russell
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“You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’...”
– Steven Conrad
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“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to...”
– Robert Heinlein
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“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the...”
– Stephen Gardiner
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“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be...”
– Jean Cocteau
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“Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”
– Truman Capote
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“A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.”
– Morihei Ueshiba
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“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to...”
– Stewart Udall
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“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be...”
– John Updike
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo
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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not...”
– Thomas Aquinas
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“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
– Pliny the Younger
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“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to...”
– William Shakespeare