May 18, 2015

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

Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131):

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970):

“Many people would sooner die thank think. In fact, they do.”

and

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

and

“Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.”

and

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

and

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Frank Capra (1897 – 1991):

“Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.”

Irene Hunt (1907 – 2001):

“I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

and

“We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.”

W.G. Sebald (1944 – 2001):

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”

and

“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”

Diane Duane (1952 - ):

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

Tina Fey (1970 - ):

“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

and

“THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.”