Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Whitman. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotaria

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman

"Sooner or later, those who win
are those who think they can."
- Paul Tournier


"Nature is a good name for an
effect whose cause is God."
- William Cowper

"Peace and justice are two
sides of the same coin."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The first question I ask myself when something
doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think
it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover
that there is no reason."
- John Cage

"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became
obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."
- Henry J. Tillman

Friday, April 17, 2009

Quotes

It may be the cock that crows, but
it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher


"I don't think anyone should write their
autobiography until after they're dead."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Abortion is advocated only by persons
who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan

A sense of humor is part of the art
of leadership, of getting along with
people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Nature is wont to hide herself."
- Heraclitus

"When I give, I give myself."
- Walt Whitman

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"I have had a perfectly wonderful
evening, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman

"The manner of giving is
worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille


"If not actually disgruntled, he
was far from being gruntled."
- P. G. Wodehouse

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra
and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening

"People seem to enjoy things more when
they know a lot of other people have
been left out of the pleasure."
- Russell Baker

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotes

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to
pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental,
bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many
times in its fight against depression.
- E. M. Cioran

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict
myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
- Walt Whitman

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is
say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
- Richard Feynman

"I had a monumental idea this
morning, but I didn't like it."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You get the best out of others when
you get the best out of yourself."
- Harvey S. Firestone

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates
beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
- Nicholas Chamfort