Showing posts with label Henry James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry James. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Quotaria

"She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing
big mistakes into small opportunities. "
- Henry James

"It is better for civilization
to be going down the drain
than to be coming up it."
- Henry Allen


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists
in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example."
- Albert Schweitzer

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's
the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed,
nor excommunicated, for they have no souls
- Sir Edward Coke

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quotaria

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my
own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,
not at all like the staring defects in other
people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey

Life's a tough proposition, and the
first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that
think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones

Preserving health by too severe
a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She was a woman who, between courses, could
be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James

"No winter lasts forever;
no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland