Archive for June, 2006

W. S. Gilbert

Friday, June 30th, 2006

“Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.”

Margaret Fuller

Friday, June 30th, 2006

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”

Sophy Burnham

Friday, June 30th, 2006

“To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.”

John Eliot, Ph.D.

Friday, June 30th, 2006

“Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.”

Lord Chesterfield

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

J. K. Rowling

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

Anna Sewell

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

William Penn

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

“Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.”