Friday, June 20, 2008

Nine great quotes and proverbs

1.At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.-Arab proverb
2.Death is not extinguishing the light----it is letting the lamp go out----because the dawn has come.-Rabindranath Tagore
3.Books,it has always seemed to me,must be read with passion or they are hardly worth reading at all.-Michael Dirda
4.In summer,the song sings itself.-William Carlos Williams
5.Experience is a good school,but the fees are high.-Heinrich Heine
6.It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying;it's separating himself from all the others.-Helen Rowland
7.I haven't been to sleep for over a year.That's why I go to bed early.One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.-Evelyn Waugh in THE DECLINE AND FALL
8.But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.-Albert Camus
9.Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.-Erich Fromm in MAN FOR HIMSELF(1947)

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