Quote of the Day Archive
"The intellectual power, honesty,
lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted
thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their
age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind." -- Isaiah Berlin
"I
said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone
has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way
of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I
decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught." -- Georgia O'Keefe
"The books which help you most are those which make you think the most.
The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that
comes from a great thinker -- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted
with truth and with beauty." -- Theodore Parker
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." -- Sydney J. Harris
Flick user Phil G
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If they're any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
"If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher
minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and
intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that
it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the
part of men to believe that a new idea can have value." -- Mark Twain
Flickr user Chad H
"The
dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where
it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place
to become discouraged." -- Thomas Edison
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. - Doug Larson
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. - Woody Allen
Keep Holy the Sabbath. -- God
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. -- John Shirley
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. -- Ogden Nash
My life ain't heaven/but it sure ain't hell./I'm not on top/but I call it swell/if I'm able to work/and get paid right/and have the luck to be Black/on a Saturday night. - Maya Angelou
Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids? -- Louise Lague
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. -- Joseph Addison
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. -- Zenna Scha
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. -- Arnot Sheppard
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. -- Rene Rivkin
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. -- Jean Rhys
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. -- Richard Rorty
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. -- Ogden Nash
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. -- Ed Howe
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. - Doug Larson
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. - Woody Allen
Keep Holy the Sabbath. -- God
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. -- John Shirley
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. -- Ogden Nash
My life ain't heaven/but it sure ain't hell./I'm not on top/but I call it swell/if I'm able to work/and get paid right/and have the luck to be Black/on a Saturday night. - Maya Angelou
Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids? -- Louise Lague
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. -- Joseph Addison
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. -- Zenna Scha
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. -- Arnot Sheppard
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. -- Rene Rivkin
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. -- Jean Rhys
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. -- Richard Rorty
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. -- Ogden Nash
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. -- Ed Howe
Flickr user thumblebee
"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard
phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and
carry home with them, and the cause is half won." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flickr user Peter II
"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!" -- H.L. Mencken
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned." -- George Santayana
Flickr user Jill Clardy
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck
