Thursday, July 03, 2008

Six great quotes

1.Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.-Albert Camus
2.Vulgarity is,in reality,nothing but a modern,chic,pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.-Edith Sitwell
3.See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?-Will Rogers ,to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
4.To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.-Cicero
5.A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish.Preferring truth to form,he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.-Iris Murdoch
6.Leniency gives rise to the ultimately necessary exercise of a degree of cruelty which could have been avoided by the employment of an efficacious punishment at an earlier time.-Cardinal Richelieu(1585-1642)

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