Showing posts with label Lord Byron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord Byron. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2009

Quote (#498)

Every great advance in science has issued
from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for
the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see
to it that its members are educated to personal initiative
and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the
changes in which they are caught and whose significance or
connections they do not perceive.
- John Dewey

As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela

It is far more impressive when others discover
your good qualities without your help.
- Judith S. Martin

"Love is the master key that
opens the gates of happiness."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's music in the sighting of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
There's earth is but an echo of the spheres.
- Byron

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotes

"I have tried to know absolutely
nothing about a great many things,
and I have succeeded fairly well."
- Robert Benchley

"Water, air, and cleanness are the
chief articles in my pharmacy."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I love not man the less,
but Nature more."
- Lord Byron


"The Amen of nature is always a flower."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"About the time we can make the ends
meet, somebody moves the ends."
- Herbert Hoover


"We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness."
- Stewart Udall

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

The first responsibility of a leader is to
define reality. The last is to say thank you.
~ Max DePree

Those who will not reason, are bigots,
those who cannot, are fools,
and those who dare not, are slaves.
- Lord Byron

The people I distrust most are those who want to
improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert

What delights us in visible
beauty is the invisible.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Whatever women do they must do twice
as well as men to be thought half as
good. Luckily, this is not difficult!"
- Charlotte Whitton

The time to stop talking is when the other person
nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins