Good Morning! Here are your daily quotations...
Philip Sidney (1554 –
1586):
“Biting my truant
pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!"
said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
and
“If you have so
earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of
poetry...thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that
while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a
sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an
epitaph.”
Jonathan Swift (1667
– 1745):
“May you live every
day of your life.”
and
“Fine words! I wonder
where you stole them.”
and
“Proper words in
proper places make the true definition of style.”
Mark Twain (1835 –
1910):
“The man who does not
read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
and
“Good friends, good
books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
and
“I have never let my
schooling interfere with my education.”
and
“Classic' - a book
which people praise and don't read.”
and
“Keep away from
people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
and
“Life is short, Break
the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss
SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh
uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you
smile.”
and
“Such is the human
race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah…didn’t miss the boat.”
and
“When I think of the
number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am
sure hell won’t be so bad at all.”
and
“Man was made at the
end of the week’s work, when God was tired.”
Winston Churchill
(1874 – 1965):
“Success is not
final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
and
“You have enemies?
Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
and
“Courage is what it
takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.”
and
“We make a living by
what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Jacques Barzun (1907
– 2012):
“Teaching is not a
lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
and
“Convince yourself
that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that
first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.”
and
“No subject of study
is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
and
“The book, like the
bicycle, is a perfect form.”
and
“Whoever wants to
know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and
realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or
small-town teams”
Shirley Chisholm
(1924 – 2005):
“You don't make
progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make
progress by implementing ideas.”
Shuggie Otis (1953 -
):
"We had a rainy day
I'm in a sneak back
situation
Here's a pencil pad
I'm gonna spread some information"
