Sunday, March 31, 2013

RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1935

English writer of popular verse who was famous for his “Jungle Book.”

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Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

FRAN LEBOWITZ b1951

American writer
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. 
What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

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Friday, March 29, 2013

MAXIM GORKY 1868-1936

Soviet writer and political activist  

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

WASHINGTON IRVING 1783-1859

American essayist who wrote “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”  

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1807-82

American poet and educator

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Sorrow and silence are strong and patient; endurance is godlike.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

J.K. ROWLING b.1965

British novelist best known for her Harry Potter books

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS
Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari, by Jerry Barrett

Monday, March 25, 2013

ISAAC NEWTON 1642-1727

English physicist and mathematician

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS 
The Lady with the Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci

Sunday, March 24, 2013

CARL JUNG 1875-1961

Swiss psychiatrist

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You are what you do, not what you say you will do.

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

MARCUS AURELIUS 121-180 AD

Roman Emperor from 161-180

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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Chinese Proverb

Before setting out for revenge, first dig two graves - one for your enemy and one for yourself

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

EMILY DICKINSON 1830-86

American poet

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

ARNOLD BENNETT 1867-1931

English novelist  

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A most curious and useful thing to realise is that one never knows the impression one is creating on other people. 

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

WILLIAM FEATHER 1889-1981

American publisher and author

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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Monday, March 18, 2013

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910

English nurse and hospital reformer during the Crimean War

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - "devoted and obedient." This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY 1900-44

French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but on looking together in the same direction.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

HELEN KELLER 1880-1968

American writer and lecturer who was both deaf and blind

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 1844-1900

German philosopher

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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Updated every Friday - QUIRKIE QUOTES 
http://quirkiequotes.blogspot.com
 

Thursday, March 14, 2013

BERTRAND RUSSELL 1872-1970

British philosopher, mathematician, historian and social critic

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 No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

DORIS LESSING b.1919

 Rhodesian writer exiled to Britain

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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but the second best.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774-1843

English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1813 till his death.

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Curses are like young chickens. They always come home to roost.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

L.M. MONTGOMERY 1874-1942

Canadian author best known for "Anne of Green Gables"

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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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beginning today - THE ETERNAL VENUS

Sunday, March 10, 2013

SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English poet, essayist, critic and biographer

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempting to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

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Saturday, March 09, 2013

JOHN RUSKIN 1819-1900

English art critic

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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Friday, March 08, 2013

EMILY BRONTE 1818-48

English novelist and poet

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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

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beginning Monday 11th March
THE ETERNAL VENUS
a celebration of women in paintings

Thursday, March 07, 2013

CONFUCIUS 551BC-479BC

Chinese teacher and philosopher

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I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.

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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

PENELOPE FITZGERALD 1916-2000

Booker prize-winning English novelist and poet

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Twice in your life you know that you are approved by everyone; 
when you learn to walk and when you learn to read.

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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

MARCEL PROUST 1871-1922

French novelist and essayist
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We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after experience which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.

NEW - beginning Monday 11th March - NEW
THE ETERNAL VENUS
a celebration of women in paintings
http://theeternalvenus.blogspot.com

Monday, March 04, 2013

GAUTAMA BUDDHA circa563 BC to 483 BC

A spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. 

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; 
not going all the way, and not starting.

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Sunday, March 03, 2013

IRIS MURDOCH 1919-99

Irish-born British author and philosopher

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What can one do with the past? 
Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace.

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Saturday, March 02, 2013

H.L. MENCKEN 1880-1956

American journalist, essayist and satirist

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as a good burglar. 

updated every week-end
QUIRKIE QUOTES
including "What a Nasty Thing to Say"

Friday, March 01, 2013

BLAISE PASCAL 1623-62

French mathematician, inventor and philosopher

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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. 

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