My Favorite Quotes

Thursday, December 21, 2006

 
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley

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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
(Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit)
Latin Proverb

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

 
Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

 
And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, December 9, 2006

 
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero

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The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahil Gibran

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