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Arlen Specter: Juvenile delinquents
“When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.” ~Arlen Specter.
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David Mamet: Old age versus youth
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. ~David Mamet
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Pride or ignorance
“It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.” -Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)
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Raymond Chandler: Mystery novels
“At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.” —Raymond Chandler, writer (1888-1959).
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Aldous Huxley: Work
“People intoxicate themselves with work so that they won’t see how they really are.” ~Aldous Huxley.
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Newt Gingrich: Perseverance
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” ~Newt Gingrich.
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Jerry Rubin: Ultimate power
“The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.” —Jerry Rubin, activist and author (1938-1994)
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Ernest Hemingway: War
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” ~Ernest Hemingway.
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Lou Reed: Life
“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” ~Lou Reed.
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John Templeton: Learn more
“If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. ” —John Templeton.
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Sophie Kerr: Industrious sinner, lazy saint
“An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. ”~Sophie Kerr
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Joyce Kilmer: Lovely as a tree
“I think I shall never see a poem, as lovely as a tree.” ~Joyce Kilmer.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Method
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. ” ~Christian Nestell Bovee.
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Oscar Levant: Marriage
“Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.” —Oscar Levant.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What matters in life…
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. “ ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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James Whitcomb Riley: Persistence
“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ” ~James Whitcomb Riley.
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Russell Lynes: Insults
“If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved. ” Russell Lynes
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John F Kennedy: Crisis
“The Chinese use two brushstrokes to write the word ‘crisis‘. One brushstroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.” ~John F Kennedy.
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Italian Proverb: King and pawn
“After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.” ~Italian Proverb
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Benjamin Franklin: Tricks and treachery
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” ~Benjamin Franklin.
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Barack Obama: Patriotism
“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who…
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Samuel Johnson: Grief
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” ~Samuel Johnson
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Pierre Corneille: Treachery
“Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.” ~Pierre Corneille
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Ian Fleming: Marriage
“Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.” ~Ian Fleming.
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Pete Seeger: Disagreeable talk
“It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.” ~Pete Seeger
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James Bryce: Patriotism
“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” ~James Bryce.
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George Eliot: The dead
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” ~George Eliot.
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Gary Busey: Fear
“Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.” ~Gary Busey
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Leonardo da Vinci: Natural experience
“ Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. ” — Leonardo da Vinci
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H L Mencken: Love and war
“Love is like war:easy to begin, but hard to stop.” ~H L Mencken.
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William Shakespeare: Fond records
“Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records.” ~William Shakespeare in Hamlet (Act I, Scene 5, Line 98)
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Gertrude Stein: Careful
“If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.” ~Gertrude Stein.
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Winston Churchill: No comment
“I think ‘no comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. ” ~Winston Churchill
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E B White: Corporate Earth
“I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. “ -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
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What we do for the Dead
Originally posted on PIGSPITTLE OHIO: Written for this week’s Writing Challenge at the Daily Post. Prompt: Leftovers. Thanks for reading. Visit the Writing Challenge for more wonderfully bloggy posts–fact and fiction–in response to the prompt. At my mother’s funeral, an older man, goateed and wearing a beret (the sight of which made me…
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Value systems
“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. ” ~Aung San Suu Kyi
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Phyllis McGinley: Praise
“Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ” ~Phyllis McGinley
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Thomas Carlyle: Books and life
“Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.” ~Thomas Carlyle
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William Shakespeare: Answers
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.” ~Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, Scene I, Line 65)
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Benjamin Whichcote: Full and empty
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ” ~Benjamin Whichcote.
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Emile Zola: Truth
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. ” ~Emile Zola
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Cautious
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru
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Stephanie Rowe: Roses in hand
“He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.” ― Stephanie Rowe, Kiss at Your Own Risk
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William Shakespeare: What we may be
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” ~William Shakespeare.
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George Bernard Shaw: Gentleman
“Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.” ~George Bernard Shaw.
