Archive for May, 2009

Gilbert K. Chesterton on Art

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Gerald R. Ford on Sports

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

- Gerald R. Ford

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Lily Tomlin on Society

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

- Lily Tomlin

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Doris Day on Age

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

- Doris Day

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Isaac Bashevis Singer on Art

I don’t invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Saint Thomas Aquinas on Love

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Alexander Eliot on Art

So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

- Alexander Eliot

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Joseph Stalin on History

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

- Joseph Stalin

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Neil Armstrong on History

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

- Neil Armstrong

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Gilbert K. Chesterton on Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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