Showing posts with label Will Durant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Will Durant. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Quote (#569)

Unless you remove the weeds,
a good crop will be ruined.
- General Sadao Araki

The sword is our steel Bible!
- General Sadao Araki

"The four building blocks of the universe
are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
Dave Barry

Conquer yourself rather than the world.
- Descartes

You never really lose until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Quotes (#482)

I am only one; But still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; I will
not refuse to do the something I can do.
- Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

Self pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to
it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see a shadow."
- Helen Keller

"Winning is not everything,
but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi

"To say nothing, especially
when speaking, is half the
art of diplomacy."
- Will Durant

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

"Education is the transmission
of civilization."
- Will Durant

"I love being a writer. What I
can't stand is the paperwork."
- Peter De Vries

"Wisdom is what's left after we've
run out of personal opinions."
- Cullen Hightower

"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer
'an alleged murderer' and the King of
England 'the alleged King of England'
to avoid libel suits."
- Stephen Leacock

"He taught me housekeeping; when
I divorce I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"All the rivers run into the
sea; yet the sea is not full."
- King Solomon