| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/1/06 |
"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise." |
Henry Kissinger |
| 1/8/06 |
"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in you loneliest loneness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned - and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine.'" |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 1/15/06 |
"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one." |
Voltaire |
| 1/22/06 |
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends." |
Cicero |
| 1/29/06 |
"A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility." |
T.S. Eliot |
| 2/5/06 |
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." |
Vince Lombardi |
| 2/12/06 |
"There are two kinds of blood, the blood that flows in the veins and the blood that flows out of them." |
Julian Tuwim |
| 2/19/06 |
"The Americans are a funny lot; they drink whiskey to keep them warm; then they put some ice in it to make it cool; they put some sugar in it to make it sweet, and then they put a slice of lemon in it to make it sour. Then they say 'here's to you' and drink it themselves." |
B. N. Chakravarty |
| 2/26/06 |
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter." |
Mortimer Adler |
| 3/5/06 |
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels." |
Groucho Marx |
| 3/12/06 |
"I drink to make other people interesting." |
George Jean Nathan |
| 3/19/06 |
"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him." |
Jim Bishop |
| 3/26/06 |
"Death gives life its fullest reality." |
Anthony Dalla Villa |
| 4/2/06 |
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." |
Phyllis Theroux |
| 4/9/06 |
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other." |
Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
| 4/16/06 |
"And of course the clear and certain truth no man has seen." |
Xenophanes |
| 4/23/06 |
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." |
Baruch Spinoza |
| 4/30/06 |
"Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill them all and you are a god." |
Jean Rostand |
| 5/7/06 |
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." |
H.L. Mencken |
| 5/14/06 |
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." |
Theodore M. Hesburgh |
| 5/21/06 |
"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines." |
Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| 5/28/06 |
"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition." |
Florida Scott-Maxwell |
| 6/4/06 |
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." |
Harry S. Truman |
| 6/11/06 |
"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 6/18/06 |
"I am a member of a magic circle, The Secret Six, which is so secret that I don't know the other five." |
Tommy Cooper |
| 6/25/06 |
"We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide." |
Ramsay MacDonald |
| 7/2/06 |
"I prefer the Chinese method of eating... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle." |
Jeff Smith |
| 7/9/06 |
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable." |
Sydney J. Harris |
| 7/16/06 |
"The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or so bad as he imagines." |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 7/23/06 |
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." |
P.J. O'Rourke |
| 7/30/06 |
"It is a myth to think death is just for the old. Death is there from the very beginning." |
Herman Feifel |
| 8/6/06 |
"If at first you don�t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There�s no use being a damn fool about it." & "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." |
W.C. Fields |
| 8/13/06 |
"Chaos is a friend of mine." |
Bob Dylan |
| 8/20/06 |
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." |
David Viscott |
| 8/27/06 |
"A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific, but it helps." |
Alexander Fleming |
| 9/3/06 |
"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place." |
Jimmy Breslin |
| 9/10/06 |
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying." |
Humphrey Carpenter |
| 9/17/06 |
"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive." |
Jean Cocteau |
| 9/24/06 |
"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| 10/1/06 |
"Somebody's boring me, I think it's me." |
Dylan Thomas |
| 10/8/06 |
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." |
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| 10/15/06 |
"I don't go looking for trouble. It always finds me. I mean, it does. It comes right into the office." |
Thomas D. Bowers |
| 10/22/06 |
"Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. All teachers know this. In consequence, they bowdlerize, but to bowdlerize political history is not to simplify but to falsify it. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction." |
W.H. Auden |
| 10/29/06 |
"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." |
David Starr Jordan |
| 11/5/06 |
"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel." |
Leon Botstein |
| 11/12/06 |
"I must follow them; I am their leader." |
Bonar Law |
| 11/19/06 |
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, and man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 11/26/06 |
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." |
Pablo Picasso |
| 12/3/06 |
"I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer... if he can only... tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes. But few people know the truth, and fewer have the artistic intent and perhaps ruthlessness to tell it." |
Clive Barnes |
| 12/10/06 |
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." |
Elie Wiesel |
| 12/17/06 |
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top." |
Frank Moore Colby |
| 12/24/06 |
"Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future." |
Meher Baba |
| 12/31/06 |
"He didn't want to say anything bad about anyone. Ford had only one major fault - he was too nice a guy." |
Bob Hartman |
