November 30, 2014

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"