Favorite Quotes

"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay." - Stephenson

 

"The substance of painting is light." - Derain

 

"When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy." - Tsunetomo

 

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long." - Kingsley

 

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

 

"Human nature is above all things lazy." - Stowe

 

"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune." - McFee

 

"Do as we say, and not as we do." - Boccaccio

 

"My music is best understood by children and animals." - Stravinsky

 

"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much." - Mondavi

 

"The only shame is to have none." - Pascal

 

"The dead of midnight is the noon of thought." - Barbauld

 

"It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves." - Collins

 

"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread." - Day

 

"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute." - Vico

 

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." - Beecher

 

"It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all." - Courteline

 

"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope." - Berenson

 

"The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature." - Hearn

 

"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory." - Faber