Entry 49

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Lao-Tsze

I like a good hater.

Samuel Johnson

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Diogenes

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and nisfortunes of mankind.

Gibbon

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Thales

Entry 48

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Gustave Flaubert

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

Entry 47

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Anton Chekhov

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Anton Chekhov

Entry 46

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Ray Bradbury

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Ray Bradbury

Entry 45

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Worsworth

OK, so what's the speed of dark ?

Steven Wright

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

Entry 44

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Entry 43

Blue thou art, intensely blue;

Flower, whence came thy dazzling

hue?

Montgomery-The Gentianella

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,

And from thy slender store two loaves are left,

Sell one, and with the dole

Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Sadi-Gulistan

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

Pascal

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Cicero

"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side."

"It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

Lincoln

Entry 42

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Men would be angels;

Angels would be gods.

Pope

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizner

The buttercups, bright-eyed and

bold,

Held up their chalices of gold

To catch the sunshine and the dew.

Julia C. R. Dorr

Entry 41

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Ruskin

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, ecucation.

Victor Hugo

Better be too credulous than too skeptical.

Chinese Proverb

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Mary Pettibone Poole

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Tennyson

Entry 40

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

Poor man. Poor mankind.
William Faulkner

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
William Faulkner

Entry 39

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Spinoza

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Spinoza

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Spinoza

Entry 38

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sigmund Freud

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Carl Gustav Jung

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Gustav Jung

Entry 37

A COOL HEAVENLY BREEZE took possession of him.
Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, ''Friend, speak to me of God,'' and the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The dual substance of Christ---the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain to God or, more exactly, to return to God and identify himself with him---has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Entry 36

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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson


I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson



Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
Johnny Carson



When turkeys mate they think of swans.
Johnny Carson

Entry 35

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.

Napoleon

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

Rousseau

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.

Tolstoy

Entry 34

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill