Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-05-14 May 14, 2014Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving.~ Auntie MameWithin seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. LucasThe great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.~ James Larkin May 13, 2014The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.~ Eric HofferMany of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.~ Friedrich August von HayekOrder is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.~ José Ortega y Gasset May 12, 2014The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.~ Marcus AureliusIt is the part of wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.~ Miguel de CervantesIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.~ W. Somerset Maugham May 9, 2014Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.~ Jann ArdenAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca May 8, 2014All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.~ Galileo GalileiThe power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.~ George Bernard ShawTo see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.~ George Orwell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print