Favorite Quotes

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle." - Whitman

 

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have." - Masefield

 

"We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us." - Spalding

 

"What more can we require? Nothing but time." - Hutton

 

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." - Stoll

 

"Defense is superior to opulence." - Smith

 

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

 

"Education is not so important as people think." - Bowen

 

"Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait." - Reade

 

"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success." - Pike

 

"The substance of painting is light." - Derain

 

"Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring." - Constable

 

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us." - Kingsley

 

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - Yeats

 

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." - Stowe

 

"I am what survives of me." - Erikson

 

"People tend to believe the bad rather than the good." - Boccaccio

 

"I am an inventor of music." - Stravinsky

 

"A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time." - Wells

 

"Belief is a wise wager." - Pascal