Bill's Quote Page

Bill's Quote Page!

This is my page with a bunch of quotes that I have been writing down over the years. I hope you like some of them.

"Why couldn't Pheidippides have died here?"
--Frank Shorter's comment to Kenny Moore at the 16-mile mark in one of Shorter's first marathons

"Space is revealed by the juxtaposition of matter; time is revealed by the change in that juxtaposition."
--Eugene Hecht

"It's good to be open-minded, but not so that your brains fall out."
--Jacob Needlemary

"In the absence of structure, there is beauty."
--Bob

"When words hide silence, listen to silence and not to words; easy words are the silence of companionship; esay silence speaks of togetherness"
--???

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after months or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends."
--Robert Frost

"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours."
--George Gissing

"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a praticed man relies on the language of the first."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
--American Proverb

"The nail that stands out gets pounded done."
--Japense Proverb

"We are the proud owners of the most powerful brain to evole on this planent, and we are certainly putting it to use. Unfortunately it didn't come with an owners manual."
--Elliot Aronson

"There is little satisfaction in the contemplating of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously contemplate the horrors of hell for others."
--P.D. James, The Children of Mean

"We do not love people for the good they have done us, as for the good that we have done them."
--Leo Tolstoy

"There is nothing people can't contrive to praise of condemn and find justification for doing so."
--Moliere, The Misanthrope

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
--Graham Wallas, The Art of Thought

"The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed in conviction by the heat of the attack and defense."
--Charles Dudley Warner, The Backlog Studies, 1873

"When you look at the long and gloomy history of man, you will see more hideous crimes have been commited in the name of obedience than in the name of rebellion."
--C.P. Snow

"'Tis much easier to fall into love than to fall out...if one believes in love at all."
--MJP, poem #17

"Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love, and love is thereupon greater than if hartred had not preceded it. For he who begins to love a thing which he was wont to hate or regard with pain, from the very fact of loving, feels pleasure."
--Spinoza, 1663

"Contary to popular belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people that you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
--Sir Peter Ustinov, 1977

"Try to reason love and you will loss your reason."
--French Proverb

"The friendships that last are those where in each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him."
--???

"Love like electricity or revolution or becoming, is a process not a thing."
--Al Younge

"Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart."
--Michael Beer

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence."
--Syndney Smith, 1855

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not deter or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
--Stephen Grelle

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life, that no one can sincerely help another without helping himself."
--Charles Dudley Warner

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations."
--John Paul Ricter, 1763-1826.

"When death, the great reconciler has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
--George Elliot

"AIDS is a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts."
--Senator James Helms of North Carolina

"I wonder if Senator Helms feels the same about Americans dying of cancer because they smoke."
--Mrs. Jeanne White-Ginder, whose son died of AIDS, after acquiring the disease from a blood transfusion.

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
--???

"Television has brought back murder into the home -- where is belongs."
--Alfred Hitchcock

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a life style I find it all too confining."
--Jane Wagner

"All our dignity lies in thought."
--Blaise Pascal

"Life it too short to drink beer from a can."
--Matt Miller