Free Quotations

leenooks — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:07:20 +0000

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

-Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)

leenooks — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:57:21 +0000

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

-John Wooden, sports coach (b. 1910)

leenooks — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:56:08 +0000

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

leenooks — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:55:29 +0000

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

leenooks — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:54:50 +0000

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

-Robert Wright, author and journalist (b. 1957)

leenooks — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:54:08 +0000

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

leenooks — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:53:18 +0000

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

-Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)

leenooks — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:52:17 +0000

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

-Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

leenooks — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:50:31 +0000

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

-Eli Khamarov

leenooks — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:49:13 +0000

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)