| Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
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GREAT QUOTATIONS THAT MAKES MY DAY BETTER:
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"Opinions have vested interests just as men have. " (Samuel Butlek, english author)
"Opinions are made to be changed--- or how is truth to be got at?" (Lord Byron, english poet)
"It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion"--- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope". (Paul Goodman, u.s. poet/author)
"The more opinions you have, the less you see". (Wim Winders, german filmaker)
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are already common." (John Locke, english philosopher)
'It takes a deep rooted opinion to survive unexpressed". (Jean Rostand, french writer)
"Before you advise anyone, "BE YOURSELF"!!! reassess your character first" ( from an anonymous 2oth cent publications of Dictionary of Quotations)
"The wheel that squeaks the loudest-- Is the one that gets the grease". (Josh Billings, u.s. humorist)
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none". (Thomas Carlyle, scottish essayist)
"Usually we praise only to be praised". (Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, french novelist)
"A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-- read forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, u.s. essayist)
"A technical objection or criticism is the first refuge of a scoundrel". (Heywood Brown, u.s.novelist)
"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affections. Nor is Love. Feelings are never true.They play with their mirriors". (Jean Baudrillard, french smiologists)
"Feeling without judgement is awashy draught indeed; but judgement by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel of human deglutition" (Charlotte Bronte, english novelist)
"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."(George Elliott, english novelist)
"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done." (William James,u.s psychologists)
"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them".(G.K. Chesterton, english author)
"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them". (Charles De Gaulle , french prime minister) |
| posted by infraternam meam @ 12:37 AM |
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