Sunday, November 30, 2014

Quote from Michael Moorcock

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.-Michael Moorcock,ELRIC:THE STEALER OF SOULS.

Quote from Dan Bennett

When temptation knocks,imagination usually answers.-Dan Bennett

Quote on land

Land,then,is not merely soil;it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils,plants and animals.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC.

Quote on obesity

Obesity is a mental state,a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.-Cyril Connolly,THE UNQUIET GRAVE.

Obesity

Quote on zoos

Zoo:An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.-Evan Esar

Quote from Brendan Francis

No yesterdays are ever wasted  for those who give themselves to today.-Brendan Francis

Quote from Robert Brault

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.-Robert Brault

Great quote on land

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which we belong,we may begin to use it with love and respect.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC.

Quote on history

History-that little sewer where man loves to wallow.-Francis Ponge

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Quote on worry

Worry is rust upon the blade.-Henry Ward Hughes

Great quote from Brendan Francis

Some people are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.-Brendan Francis

Quote on horror movies

Most horror movies are certainly that.-Brendan Francis

Quote from Brendan Francis

Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.-Brendan Francis

Quote on inspirations

Inspirations never go in for long engagements;they demand immediate marriage to action.-Brendan Francis

Quote from Brendan Francis

Every man,through fear,mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.-Brendan Francis

Quote from Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at-seldom looked into.-Ansel Adams

Quote from Robert Brault

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.-Robert Brault

Quogte from Ovid

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.-Ovid

Friday, November 28, 2014

Very good quote from Aldo Leopold

We face the question whether a still higher ''standard of living''is worth its cost in things natural,wild and free.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC,1949.

Quote from Eckhart Tolle

Where there is anger,there is pain underneath.-Eckhart Tolle

Quote from Woody Harrelson

A grownup is a child with layers on.-Woody Harrelson

Quote on alcohol

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote on shopping

Shopping is better than sex.If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.-Adrienne Gusoff

Quote on opportunity

Opportunity knocked.My doorman threw him out.-Adrienne Gusoff

Quote from Adrienne Gusoff

If the shoe fits,it's too expensive.-Adrienne Gusoff

Quote on shopping

If men liked shopping,they'd call it research.-Cynthia Nelms

One-liner from Les Dawson

My wife is a sex object.Every time I ask for sex,she objects.-Les Dawson

Quote on pornography

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex,to do dirt on it.-D.H.Lawrence

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Quote from Bud Flanagan

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.-Bud Flanagan

Quote from Robert Brault

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.-Robert Brault

Quote on varicose veins

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.-William Osler

Quote from George Elliston

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!-George Elliston

Quote from Cicero

A thanmkful heart isd n ot only the greatest virtue,but the parent of all the other virtues.-Cicero

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Quote from Virginia Graham

When some people retire,it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.-Virginia Graham

Quote from Patty Doyle

My retirement plan is to find a shopping cart with good snow tires.-Patty Doyle

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Terri Guillemets

In retirement,every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.-Terri Guillemets

Quote from Robert Half

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.-Robert Half

Quote on solitude

Solitude is a form of meditation.-Terri Guillemets

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Good quote on technology

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.-Robert M.Pirsig

Interesting quote on retirement

Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.-Terri Guillemets

Insightful quote from Paul Sweeney

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,packaged cake mixes,frozen dinners,and instant cameras teach patience to its young?-Paul Sweeney

Quote from Dan Rockwell

Wake up with determination.Go to bed with satisfaction.-Dan Rockwell

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Quote from Dan Rockwell

Want to get ahead?Make life easier for those around you.-Dan Rockwell

Quote from Terri Guillemets

Wash out your ego every once in a while,as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.-Terri Guillemets

Quote from Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.-Arthur Koestler

Quote from Anne Dillard

You can't terst courage cautiously.-Anne Dillard

Quote from W.Somerset Maugham

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar,but in a city,with its blaze of lights,it is unnatural,hostile and menacing.It is like a monstruous vulture that hovers,biding its time.-W.Somerset Maugham

Quote from Terri Guillemets

Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.-Terri Guillemets

Great quote on leaders

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader;a boss says "Go!''-a leader says "Let's go!''-E.M.Kelly

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Quote from Stuart McMillan

A meow massages the heart.-Stuart McMillan

Quote from Mary H.Waldrip

When someone sings his own praises,he always gets the tune too high.-Mary H.Waldrip

Another quote from Mignon McLaughlin

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960.

Quote from James McNeill Whistler

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary,because heaven has granted me no offspring.-James McNeill Whistler

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Interesting blog

Quote from Robert Service

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big,worthwhile things.-Robert Service

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

There are whole years for which I hope I"ll never be cross-examined,for I could not give an alibi.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960.

Quote on posterity

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.-Art Linkletter

Quote on love

Love is pulling together against all odds.-Smiley Blanton

Quote on nudist colonies

I was just thinking,if it is really religion with these nudist colonies,they sure must turn atheists in the winter time.-Will Rogers

Quote from Gina Lindley

People who put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.-Gina Lindley

Great quote on criticism

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.-Robert Brault

Quote from Ashleigh Brilliant

It'sd not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.-Ashleigh Brilliant

Quote from Mary H.Waldrip

A laugh is a smile that bursts.-Mary H.Waldrip

Quote from Bern Williams

I like the word ''indolence''.It makes my laziness seem classy.-Bern Williams

Quote on good manners

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The term 'Small talk'

The term 'Small talk' was coined by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski in 1923.

Quote from William Safire

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.-William Safire

Quote from Howard Scott

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.-Howard Scott

Quote from Mary H.Waldrip

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.-Mary H.Waldrip

Quote from Doug Larson

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.-Doug Larson

Quote from Smiley Blanton

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life,and loving husbands and fathers at home.-Smiley Blanton

Quote from Clifford Geertz

If we wanted home truths,we should have stayed at home.-Clifford Geertz

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Quote on housework

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.-Erma Bombeck

Quote from Patrick Driessen

I love quotes because good quotes are vitamins for the brain!-Patrick Driessen

Quote on proverbs

Proverbs generalize the verdicts of the world.-Terri Guillemets

Quote from Douglas Malloch

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.-Douglas Malloch

Quote from MIgnon McLaughlin

We work for praise,and dawdle once we have it.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960

A Philippine proverb

Be careful that you don't spit on your own face.-Philippine proverb

Friday, November 21, 2014

Quote from Polly Adler

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.-Polly Adler

Quote on freedom

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.-Moshe Dayan

Quote from Marshall McLuhan

Affluence creates poverty.-Marshall McLuhan

Quote from Nicholas Johnson

It used to be that people needed products to survive.Now products need people to survive.-Nicholas Johnson

Proverb on autumn

Autumn is the hush before winter.-French proverb

Quote on loafing

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.-Christopher Morley

Great quote from George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.-George McGovern

Quote on authors

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.--Terri Guillemets

Quote from Maya Angelou

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.-Maya Angelou

A Philippine proverb

A sleeping lobster is carried away by the current.-Philippine proverb

Quote from Nancy Barcus

The closer one gets to the top,the more one finds there is no ''top.''-Nancy Barcus

Thursday, November 20, 2014

A Philippine proverb

There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.-Philippine proverb

Quote from Jeff Daly

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.-Jeff Daly

Quote on chowder

Chowder breathes reassurance.It steams consolation.-Clementine Paddleford

Quote on dyspepsia

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.-A.Kerr

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Quote from Bern Williams

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.-Bern Williams

Quote on books

Books are embalmed minds.-Bovee

Quote from Ross MacDonald

The wall of books around him,dense with the past,formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.-Ross MacDonald

Quote from Louise A.Belcher

Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.-Louise A.Belcher

Quote from Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.-Russell Lynes

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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Quote on jealousy

Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.-Terri Guillemets

Quote from Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.-Brian W.Aldiss,THE DARK LIGHT YEARS.

Quote on books

Books-the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.-George Steiner

Quote from Peter Drucker

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.-Peter Drucker

Quote on bagels

The bagel,an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.-Beatrice and Ira Freedman

Quote from Walt Kelly

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.-Walt Kelly

Quote from Elizabeth Russell

Bread and butter,devoid of charm in the drawing-room,is ambrosia eating under a tree.-Elizabeth Russell

Interesting blogs and websites on eating

Quote from Paul Brodeur

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.-Paul Brodeur,OUTRAGEOUS MISCONDUCT.

Quote on maturity

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.-Joshua L.Liebman

Quote from May Sarton

A house that does not have one worn,comfy chair in it is soulless.-May Sarton

Monday, November 17, 2014

Quote from Neil Postman

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.-Neil Postman,American sociologist.

A French proverb

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.-French proverb

Quote from Martin H.Fischer

Life goes faster on protein.-Martin H.Fischer

Quote on apples

An apple is an excellent thing-until you have tried a peach.-George Du Maurier

Wise quote from Erma Bombeck

Seize the moment.Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.-Erma Bombeck

Quote on budgets

The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.-Dan Bennett

Quote on condensed milk

Condensed milk is wonderful.I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.-Fred Allen

Quote from Bob Hope

The trees in Siberia are miles apart-that's why the dogs are so fast.-Bob Hope

English proverb

They are not all saints who use holy water.-English proverb

Quote from William Hazlitt

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.-William Hazlitt

Old New York proverb

A nickel will get you on the subway,but garlic will get you a seat.-Old New York proverb

Quote on bulldogs

Bull dogs are adorable,with faces like toads that have been sat on.-Colette

Quote from Andrew Carnegie

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.-Andrew Carnegie

Quote from Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical.-Bertrand Russell

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Quote from Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never exaggerate.I just remember big.-Chi Chi Rodriguez

Quote from Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?-Al Boliska

Quote from Ursula K Le Guin

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?-Ursula K.LeGuin

Quote from Stephen King

Only enemies speak the truth;friends and lovers lie endlessly,caught in the web of duty.-Stephen King

Quote from Adolf Hitler

What luck for rulers that men do not think.-Adolf Hitler

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Catherine Aird

If----you can't be a good example,then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.-Catherine Aird

Quote on self-acceptance

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself;he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.-James A.Pike

Quote from John Wesley

Passion and prejudice govern the world,only under the name of reason.-John Wesley

A German proverb

"But " is a fence over which few leap.-German proverb

Quote on self-pity

Self-pity is a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.-Elizabeth Elliot

Quote from Paul Gauguin

Civilization is what makes you sick.-Paul Gauguin

Quote on charity

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.-Dan Bennett

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Quote from Betsy Canas Garmon

Coffee in styrofoam is against my religion.-Betsy Canas Garmon

Quote from Ayn Rand

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.-Ayn Rand,ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Quote from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law.It is capricious law.-Christopher Hitchens,LOVE,POVERTY AND WAR:JOURNEYS AND ESSAYS.

Quote from Stefan Molyneux

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.-Stefan Molyneux

Quote on taxation

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons.-Robert Anton Wilson,THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Quote on success

Success is a great deodorant.-Elizabeth Taylor

Quote from Michael Moorcock

Time is the enemy of identity.-Michael Moorcock

Great quote from Colette

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.-Colette

Quote from Lysander Spooner

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.-Lysander Spooner

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Insightful quote on tyrants

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.-Elbert Hubbard

Quote on laughter

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy.Tyrants are wise to fear it.-David Mitchell

Quote from Edward R.Murrow

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.-Edward R.Murrow

Quote on literary prizes

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales,not to reward merit.-Michael Moorcock

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Insightful quote on conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.If you cannot change your own life,it must be that some greater force controls the world.-Roger Cohen

Quote from Adolf Hitler

To conquer a nation,first disarm its citizens.-Adolf Hitler,German dictator.

Interesting quote from Emily Bronte

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him;they crush those beneath them.-Emily Bronte

Quote from Ernie Pyle

If you go long enough without a bath,even the fleas will leave you alone.-Ernie Pyle

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Quote fgrom John Cheever

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.-John Cheever(1912-1982),American short-story writer.

Interesting quote on fiction

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.-John Cheever

Quote from Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.-Samuel Butler

Quote from John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life,make sure a few of them are dirt.-John Muir

Quote on writing

Writing is like the life of a glacier;one eternal grind.-John Muir

Monday, November 10, 2014

Great quote on trees

I never saw a discontented tree.They grip the ground as though they liked it,and though fast rooted,they travel about as far as we do.-John Muir

Quote from Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.-Lord Chesterfield

Quote from Simon Head

It offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines.-Simon Head

Quote from Robert Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.-Robert Burton

Quote on golf

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.-William Wordsworth

Quote from John Tudor

Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation.-John Tudor

Quotation from Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances,it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again.The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'-Marshall McLuhan

Quote from David Lodge

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for-desire undiluted by habit.-David Lodge(born 1935).

Quote from Tyler Durden

Self-improvement is Masturbation.-Tyler Durden

Quote on fiction

Fiction is experimentation;when it ceases to be that,it ceases to be fiction.-John Cheever(1912-1982)

Quote on art

Art is the triumph over chaos.-John Cheever(1912-1982)

Sunday, November 09, 2014

Great quote from David Lodge

I never did like working out-it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.-David Lodge(b.1935),English critic and novelist.

Interesting quote on sex

Sex without love is nothing more than a complex form of masturbation.-August Clearwing,NEVER HAVE I EVER.

Funny quote from Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.-Lily Tomlin

Saturday, November 08, 2014

Quote from Marcus Aurelius

The noblest way of taking revenge on others is by refusing to become like them.-Marcus Aurelius

Quote from Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths:all truths are half-truths.It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.-Alfred North Whitehead

Quote from Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you,you never become older.-Tom Stoppard

Quote on depression

Depression is rage spread thin.-George Santayana

Quote on forgiveness

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.-Josh McDowell

Insightful quote from Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.-Thomas Paine

Quote from Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.-Marcus Aurelius

Quote from James Watson

How do you have a just society when genetics is unjust?-James Watson

Quote on curiosity

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.-Vladimir Nabokov

Quote from Rusty Berkus

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence,applaud yourself!-Rusty Berkus

Friday, November 07, 2014

Quote from J.R.R.Tolkien

The wide world is all about you:you can fence yourselves in,but you cannot forever fence it out.-J.R.R.Tolkien

Great quote from George Collopy

If you follow the money you'll lose your dreams.If you follow your dreams,the money will come.-George Collopy

Quote on sleep

Sleep was like sex.The less you had,the more you craved it.-Robert Dugoni,MY SISTER'S GRAVE.

Thursday, November 06, 2014

Quote from Margaret Drabble

Too academic an education can inhibit the workings of the creative mind.-Margaret Drabble,THE PARIS REVIEW,fall/winter 1978.

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Quote on information

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.-Clarence Day

Quote on wine and cheese

Wine and cheese are ageless companions,like aspirin and aches,or June and moon,or good people and noble ventures.-M.F.K Fisher

Quote on women's ages

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on reason

Reason is the servant of instinct.-Clarence Day

Quote from Clarence Day

You can't sweep other people off their feet,if you can't be swept off your own.-Clarence Day

Quote from Frank A.Clark

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.-Frank A.Clark

Quote on ants

Ants are good citizens,they place group interests first.-Clarence Day

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Quote from Ward Just

Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl.It trivializes eveything:men two inches high,a ball the size of a bee.It is like looking at the heavens through a dime-store telescope.-Ward Just

Quote from Bill Vaughan

The whale is endangered,while the ant continues to do just fine.-Bill Vaughan

Great quote on government

A government,for protecting business only,is but a carcass ,and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.-Amos Bronson Alcott(1799-1888),American reformer,philosopher and teacher.

Deltiologist

Deltiologist:Someone who collects postcards.

Vecturist

Vecturist:Someone who collects transportation tokens.

Monday, November 03, 2014

Quote from Elin Hilderbrand

To be early is to be on time,to be on time is to be late,to be late is to be forgotten.-Elin Hilderbrand,THE ISLAND.

Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote from John B.S.Haldane

There can be no truce between science and religion.-John B.S.Haldane

Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't have the power to make life ''fair'',but you do have the power to make life joyful.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door.Notice.-Mary Anne Radmacher

Sunday, November 02, 2014

Thought-provoking quote on capitalism

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history.Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money.The banking system will collapse totally,and we will be left having to barter to stay alive.Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest.I'll be all right;I've got a few veg.-Margaret Drabble,THE GUARDIAN,January 2,1993.

Quote from Olivia Munn

Fool me once,Shame on you
Fool me twice,ratings galore!-Olivia Munn

Quote from Margaret Drabble

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition,which I admire,than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.-Margaret Drabble(born 1939)

Quote from Noel Coward

I need to put some roots down somewhere in Europe.I'm tired of the unbrave New world.-Noel Coward,THE NOEL COWARD DIARIES,April 13,1958 entry.

Quote from Margaret Drabble

Lucky in work,unlucky in love.-Margaret Drabble,THE MILLSTONE.

Quote from John D.Rockefeller

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.-John D.Rockefeller

Saturday, November 01, 2014

Quote on rejection

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going,rather than retreat.-Sylvester Stallone

Another quote from Walter Gropius

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.-Walter Gropius

Quote from John D.Rockefeller

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.-John D.Rockefeller(1839-1937),American industrialist and philanthropist,Founder of the Standard Oil Company.

Quote on flowers

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Henry David Thoreau

Music is perpetual,and only the hearing is intermittent.-Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)

Quote from Walter Gropius

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off,and that will be your claim to immortality.-Walter Gropius(1883-1969),German architect.