Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1.  If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991, Polish-born American journalist,  writer)

2.  Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
~J. C. Macaulay

3.  The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
~Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)

4.  A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
~George S. Patton (1885-1945, American army general during World War II)

5.  Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
~Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)

6.  Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
~Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, American novelist, playwright)

7.  Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)

Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1. The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

2. We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)

3. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

~ Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)

4. A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.

~ Chinese Proverb

5. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

~ John Wooden (1910- 2010, American basketball coach)

6. Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

~ John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British religious leader, prelate, writer)

7. How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we try.

~ Song from the California Special Olympics


Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1. If the sky falls, hold up your hands.

~ Spanish Proverb

2. One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)

3. Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

~ Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author)

4. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

~ Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)

5. I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

~Giovani della Casa (1503-1556, Papal secretary of state)

6. The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

~ Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)

7. It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

~ Erica Jong (1942-, American author)


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Best quote of the day.

Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you
represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

~Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)

2.  Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

3. Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

4. We only think when we are confronted with problems.

~John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher, educator)

5. To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

~Chinese Proverb

6. It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.

~African Proverb

7. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

~English Proverb

Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1. First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to

others.

~Thomas ã    Kempis
(1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)

2. Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each
other.

~Elie Wiesel
(1928-, Romanian-born American writer)

3. If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite
period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful
and helpful way toward one another.

~Winston Churchill
(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)

4. A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish
great things.

~Chinese Proverb

5. A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

~African Proverb

6. If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your
friend.

~Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865, American President (16th))

7. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

~John Ruskin
(1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)

 

Notable Quotes

A periodic posting of some notable quotes:

1. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

~John Stuart Mill (1806-1873, British philosopher, economist)

2. One does not discover new lands without consenting  to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

~Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)

3. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

~Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)

4. Man has no greater enemy than himself.

~Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374, Italian poet, humanist)

5. Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

~Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)

6. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

~Johann Friedrich Von Schiller  (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)

7. A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

~Author Unknown

Fascinating.

 

Google is celebrating Star Trek's 46th anniversary today, so in honor of that auspicious occasion, I thought I'd post some websites with the best sci-fi quotes. There's a top 7 list of most memorable quotes floating around, possibly first posted on Nokia, but also picked up by Inktank. Weirdmedia has compiled a huge list of their top 100 sci-fi quotes. Everyone's got their list, even Psychology Today, with their own top 10. And, who could ever forget one of the most memorable lines ever uttered in a sci-fi show, "Never fear, Smith is here!" 

One Small Letter

One Small Step

Neil Armstrong's passing has re-invigorated the topic of whether he actually uttered the article 'a' in his famous sentence upon stepping on the moon. Everyone in the world heard him say, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Though Armstrong initially claimed he had used the article 'a'  before 'man,' he later conceded after hearing his recorded voice, that he had intended to say it, since grammatically it would make more sense in the context of the event. A few years ago, researchers studied the sound file of his [mis]quote and came to believe that there was a break in the file of several milliseconds.  And some scholars have even stated it might be simply an issue of dialect, that the 'a' might just have been combined with the 'for' as in 'fruh.' However, later analysis by other reseachers came to the conclusion that he simply misspoke. Snopes.com quotes Rick Houston, an Apollo historian, as refuting the claims that the 'a' was somehow garbled, stating it would be, "revisionist history" to believe so.

But whatever was said or intended to be said when Armstrong stepped on the moon, the discussion is dwarfed by the magnitude of the achievement of one human and all humankind. I for one will never forget the day the moon landing occurred as I watched it years ago as a child, riveted to the television with wonder and awe.