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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
08/01/09 | "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein |
08/02/09 | "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman |
08/03/09 | "There is always room at the top - after the investigation." - Oliver Herford |
08/04/09 | "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." - Henry Miller |
08/05/09 | "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion |
08/06/09 | "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats |
08/07/09 | "To find yourself, think for yourself. " - Socrates |
08/08/09 | "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." - Washington Irving |
08/09/09 | "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." - Henri Frederic Amiel |
08/10/09 | "Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve." - George Santayana |
08/11/09 | "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler |
08/12/09 | "We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language." - Joyce Carol Oates |
08/13/09 | "A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for." - John Shedd |
08/14/09 | "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - John Milton |
08/15/09 | "In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst." - Oscar Wilde |
08/16/09 | "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte |
08/17/09 | "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky |
08/18/09 | "O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - William Shakespeare |
08/19/09 | "Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents." - Carl Gustav Jung |
08/20/09 | "The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
08/21/09 | "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - Neil Postman |
08/22/09 | "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want." - Italian Proverb |
08/23/09 | "Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom." - George Smith Patton, Jr. |
08/24/09 | "Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack." - John Shedd |
08/25/09 | "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
08/26/09 | "I have not been afraid of excess. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - William Somerset Maugham |
08/27/09 | "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." - William Shakespeare |
08/28/09 | "The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed." - Helen Keller |
08/29/09 | "What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
08/30/09 | "It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same." - Isadora Duncan |
08/31/09 | "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein |
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