Showing posts with label Norman Douglas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Douglas. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"The pine stays green in
winter... wisdom in hardship."
- Norman Douglas

Change is the constant,
the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but
should not set limits to imagination."
- Bertrand Russell

"When you have a dream, you've got
to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett

If you are planning for a year, sow rice;
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

"You know you've read a good book
when you turn the last page and
feel as if you've lost a friend."
- Anonymous

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotaria

"I don't feel old. I don't feel
anything till noon. That's when
it's time for my nap."
- Bob Hope

"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell

"Absolute faith corrupts as
absolutely as absolute power."
- Eric Hoffer


"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the
evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly
the mind consents to reality."
- Norman Douglas

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around
the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when
it reached only to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow

"This is the sixth book I've
written, which isn't bad for
a guy who's only read two."
- George Burns