Albert Camus on Nature
July 11th, 2008Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Thomas A. Edison on War
July 10th, 2008There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas A. Edison
George Bernard Shaw on Age
July 10th, 2008Youth is wasted on the young.
- George Bernard Shaw
Erik H. Erikson on Death
July 10th, 2008Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
Doris Lessing on Age
July 10th, 2008The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- Doris Lessing
Dan Quayle on Politics
July 9th, 2008When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
- Dan Quayle
Charles A. Jaffe on Business
July 9th, 2008Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
- Charles A. Jaffe
Barbara Jordan on Society
July 9th, 2008Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
- Barbara Jordan
Henry David Thoreau on Sports
July 9th, 2008Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry J. Kaiser on Jobs & Working
July 8th, 2008When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser
