Quotations Weblog

Twitter Quotations for 2010-02-09

Laura Moncur — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." – Edna Ferber http://tqpage.com/1487 #
"Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them." – Madame de Stael http://tqpage.com/2924 #
"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose." – George Lucas http://tqpage.com/39971 #
"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://tqpage.com/1904 #

Laura Moncur — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand." – Jennie Jerome Churchill http://tqpage.com/1608 #
"The best things carried to excess are wrong." – Charles Churchill http://tqpage.com/1701 #
"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures." – Han Suyin http://tqpage.com/31206 #
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." – Izaak Walton http://tqpage.com/2018 #

Laura Moncur — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." – Steve Jobs http://tqpage.com/38348 #
"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it." – Plutarch http://tqpage.com/33424 #
"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely." – William Penn http://tqpage.com/2699 #
"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace." – Barbara Hall http://tqpage.com/27165 #

Laura Moncur — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." – Judy Garland http://tqpage.com/2096 #
"Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil." – Vachel Lindsay http://tqpage.com/2465 #
"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." – W. Somerset Maugham http://tqpage.com/1479 #
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – Plato http://tqpage.com/2128 #

Laura Moncur — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." – Voltaire http://tqpage.com/2539 #
"Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind." – Elizabeth Aston http://tqpage.com/40171 #
"If you can't be funny, be interesting." – Harold Ross http://tqpage.com/3035 #
"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it." – Edith Wharton http://tqpage.com/37844 #

Laura Moncur — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing." – George Washington http://tqpage.com/38913 #
"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." – P. D. James http://tqpage.com/25919 #
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." – Denis Diderot http://tqpage.com/33490 #
"Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'." – Ernst Haas http://tqpage.com/37726 #

Laura Moncur — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible." – Francois de La Rochefoucauld http://tqpage.com/2637 #
"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." – Clarence Thomas http://tqpage.com/2118 #
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." – Plato http://tqpage.com/3036 #
"Working in the garden…gives me a profound feeling of inner peace." – Ruth Stout http://tqpage.com/1689 #

Laura Moncur — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." – Og Mandino http://tqpage.com/38184 #
"The beginning is always today." – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley http://tqpage.com/31287 #
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." – Elizabeth Bowen http://tqpage.com/1658 #
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." – Ralph Waldo Emerson http://tqpage.com/3238 #

Laura Moncur — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time." – Nancy Astor http://tqpage.com/1620 #
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." – John Cleese http://tqpage.com/31250 #
"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment." – Horace http://tqpage.com/33435 #
"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." – Dan Rather http://tqpage.com/2861 #

Laura Moncur — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win." – Edward Gibbon http://tqpage.com/1576 #
"Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens." – Stella Terrill Mann http://tqpage.com/27112 #
"Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you." – Scott Westerfeld http://tqpage.com/40183 #
"Never spend your money before you have it." – Thomas Jefferson http://tqpage.com/2729 #