QUOTES

It is a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past, because we have survived. (Susan Sontag)

Most of us are creatures of circumstances, limited in the opportunities which come to us, and the only thing in life which we may be justly proud is that we have not let those opportunities which have been given us slide. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

We may devide fictional characters into flat and round. the test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises, its flat. If it does not convince, it is flat pretending to be round (E.M. Forster)

"Working Mothers" is a misnomer. It implies that any mother without a definite career is indolently not working, lolling around eating bon-bons, reading novels, and watching soap operas. But the word "mother" is already a synonym for some of the hardest, most demanding work ever shouldered by any human. (Liz Smith)

Is it better to be loved than feared, or the reverse? The answer is that it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail in one of the two. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. There is no event greater in life than the apperance of a new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character which drawls them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended. (Aristotle)

We always hesitate to treat a dangerously good man as a lunatic because he may turn out to be a prophet in the true sense: that is, a man of exceptional sanity who is in the right when we are in the wrong. (George Benard Shaw)

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest ammount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul. (Socrates)

Had it been merely vanity that had him do his one good deed? Or the desire for a new sensation? Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? (Oscar Wilde)

The truth is -- and it's merciful --that in memory, humiliations and failure tend to vanish and sucesses are magnified. (Bertrand Russell)

Courage is often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. (Diane De Pottiers)

A man should compare advantageously with a river, with an oak, with a mountian: endless flow, expansion, and grit (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Never did Mozart write for eternity, and it is for precisely that reason that much of what he wrote is for eternity. (Alfred Einstein)

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. (Robert Allen)