January 29, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809):

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

and

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

and

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

and

“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”

William McKinley (1843 – 1901):

“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904):

“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”

and

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

and

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”

and

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

and

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946):

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

and

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

and

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”

Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989):

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”

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“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”

Roddy Frame (1964 - ):

“P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E.

It's no mystery

What you don't know always gets you

It will hurt you and desert you

So you'd better seeThat it's a damage ever done by degrees

And some will take eternity to believe

Why should it take the tears of a woman

To see how men are”

“They're calling all the shots

They'll call and say they phoned

They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone”