Vince Lombardi, on our self-worth
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
Archive for April, 2017
Quote of the day, April 29
April 29, 2017E.B. White, on luck (from One Man’s Meat)
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence self-made men.”
Quote of the day, April 28
April 28, 2017Sam Rayburn, on compromise
“If you want to get along, go along.”
Quote of the day, April 27
April 28, 2017John Adams, on government
“A government of laws and not of men.”
Quote of the day, April 26
April 26, 2017Alfred North Whitehead, from The Concept of Nature
“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
Quote of the day, April 25
April 25, 2017Itzhak Perlman, on teaching
“One of the main things about teaching is not what you say but what you don’t say. When you hear someone play, you have to work out the way they do things naturally and then leave them alone, because you want the naturalness to be there still.”
Quote of the day, April 24
April 25, 2017Aristotle, from Politics
“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”
Quote of the day, April 23
April 23, 2017Franz Kakfa, from The Trial
“It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
Quote of the day, April 22
April 23, 2017Samuel Butler, from Note-Books
“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
Quote of the day, April 21
April 21, 2017William Faulkner, from Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
