Showing posts with label Henry Ward Beecher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Ward Beecher. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Quote (#491)

If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment when
one person says to another: "What! You,
too? Thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis

"Love has reasons which
reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascal

"The last time I saw him he
was walking down lover's
lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen

"I don't want life to imitate
art. I want life to be art."
- Ernst Fischer

"Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

Are you going to come quietly,
or do I have to use earplugs?
- Spike Milligan


To know all is not to forgive all.
It is to despise everything.
- Quentin Crisp

Where is human nature so
weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher


"Every sentence I utter must be understood
not as an affirmation, but as a question."
- Niels Bohr


The trouble with weather forecasting is that
it's right too often for us to ignore it and
wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young

Never tell a story because it is true:
tell it because it is a good story.
- John Pentland Mahaffy