Saturday, October 4, 2008

Q. Quotes

1. God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart – Izaak Walton

2. God is really one another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things -Pablo Picasso(1881-1973) quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso, Pt I.

3. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid – Arthur Miller (1915-)

4. Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy- F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). “The Note-Books” (E), The Cracked Up, ed. Edmund Wilson, 1945

5. Yes, as I have already told you, here they hang a man first and try him afterwards – B.Poquelin, called Moliere (1622-1673)

6. If you give me six lines written by the most honest man.. I will find something in them to hang him – Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) [Attr. in various forms and to other authors]

7. In the last analysis, it is our conceptions of death which decides ours answers to all the questions that life puts to us – Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) Diaries

8. It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word – Andrew Johnson

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