Archive for July, 2006

Carrie Fisher on Success

Monday, July 31st, 2006

There is no point at which you can say, Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.

- Carrie Fisher

William Shakespeare on Nature

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

- William Shakespeare

Josh Billings on Art

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

- Josh Billings

George Bernard Shaw on Business

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

- George Bernard Shaw

Doug Larson on Wisdom

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

- Doug Larson

Georg C. Lichtenberg on Society

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Henri Matisse on Art

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

- Henri Matisse

Helen Rowland on Marriage

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

- Helen Rowland

Stewart Alsop on Death

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

- Stewart Alsop

Edward Thomas on Love

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.

- Edward Thomas