SILENCE!

Quote for Today - November 28,  2010


"If you know the love that can lead you near to heartbreak, if you know not only the heights of ecstasy but the depths of pain, then you will know you stand before a mystery and you will be silenced."

Gerald Vann [1906-1963 ], The Heart of Man, 1945



Painting by Georges Rouault [1871-1958], De Profundis, Psalm 130, [1927]

HISTORIANS

Quote for Today - November 27, 2010


"God can't alter the past, but historians can."


Samuel Butler [1835-1902]

RADICAL 
OR CONSERVATIVE?

Quote for Today - November 26, 2010


"If a man is right he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative."

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) [1818-1885]

HAPPY  THANKSGIVING

Quote for Thanksgiving Day - November 25, 2010


"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks."


William Shakespeare [1564-1616] Hamlet, Act II, ii, 286

TIGER, PIG,
ASS OR NIGHTINGALE?

Quote for Today - November 24, 2010


"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity."


Ambrose Bierce [1842- c. 1914]

WE'RE  ALL  ALIKE

Quote for Today - November 23, 2010


"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."


James Russell Lowel [1819-1891]

A  WORD
TO THE WISE:
BE KIND OF KIND

Quote for Today - November 22, 2010


"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."


Sir Arthur Helps [1813-1875]