Sunday, September 21, 2008

Nine great quotes

1.Man is in love and loves what vanishes.
What more is there to say?-William Butler Yeats
2.Writers write to influence their readers,their preachers,their auditors, but
always,at bottom,to be more themselves.-Aldous Huxley
3.Nothing so tests the character of an individual as the running of elections.-Winston Churchill
4.A personal website is like a refrigerator door that the whole world can look at.-James S.Huggins,www.jameshuggins.com
5.Man seems to be made neither to live alone nor with others.-Fulke Greville(1554-1628)
6.How much it takes to become a writer.Bent (far more than we assume),circumstances ,time,development of craft-but beyond that:how much conviction as to the importance of what one has to say,one's right to say it.-Tillie Olson
7.Recommend virtue to your children;it alone ,not money,can make them happy.I speak from experience.-Ludwig Van Beethoven
8.An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,or even how much you know.It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.-Anatole France,quoted in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
9.An alliance or coalition between government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against.-James Madison,in a letter to Edward Livingston in 1820.

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