30 November 2010

30/11/10

Self-portrait - Lavinia Fontana

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
-Walter Bagehot

29 November 2010

29/11/10


Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.
-Basho

28 November 2010

28/11/10

Craspedodiscus coscinodiscus Ehrenberg - Stephen Nagy, M.D.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
-Elizabeth Gaskell

27 November 2010

27/11/10



Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Søren Kierkegaard

26 November 2010

26/11/10

Nulthamalth (fool dancer) mask from the Kwakiutl, 19th Century

Only the educated are free.
-Epictetus

25 November 2010

25/11/10

Freedom from Want - Norman Rockwell
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. 
~Benjamin Disraeli

24 November 2010

24/11/10



If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

-Kurt Vonnegut

23 November 2010

23/11/10

Pillars of Society - George Grosz
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-Aldous Huxley

22 November 2010

22/11/10

Some days it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
-Emo Phillips

21 November 2010

21/11/10


I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. 
-Jane Austen

20 November 2010

20/11/10


There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. 
-Homer 

19 November 2010

19/11/10


The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
-Blaise Pascal




18 November 2010

18/11/10


If you drink, don't drive.  Don't even putt.
-Dean Martin

17 November 2010

17/11/10


If you want to know your past, look into your present condition.
If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.
-Chinese Proverb

16 November 2010

16/11/10


We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. 
-Arthur Schopenhauer

15 November 2010

15/11/10

Winter - Bertha Boynton Lum

The unspoken word never does harm. 
-Lajos Kossuth

14 November 2010

14/11/10

Girl with Cherries - Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own. 
-Sir Richard Francis Burton 

13 November 2010

13/11/10


I worry that the person who thought of muzak might be thinking of something else.
-Lily Tomlin

12 November 2010

12/11/10


The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. 
-Cicero

11 November 2010

11/11/10

Picture-Show

And still they come and go: and this is all I know --
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,
With glad or grievous hearts I'll never understand
Because Time spins so fast, and they've no time to stay
Beyond the moment's gesture of a lifted hand.

And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,
The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same
As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been ...
And life is just the picture dancing on the screen.

-Siegfried Sassoon

10 November 2010

10/11/10


Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
-Barbara Jordan

09 November 2010

09/11/10


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

08 November 2010

08/11/10

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
-Emma Goldman

07 November 2010

07/11/10


A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams

06 November 2010

06/11/10


The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
-Dante Alighieri

05 November 2010

05/11/10

Aleppo, early 20th Century
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
-John W. Gardner

04 November 2010

04/11/10


The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken

02 November 2010

02/11/10

Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. 
-Jawaharlal Nehru 

01 November 2010

01/11/10


We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. 
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.