Tuesday, December 12, 2006

some good thoughts


  • Calamities are of two kinds : misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.

    -Ambrose Bierce



  • Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

    -James Russell Lowell



  • It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

    -William Whitelaw



  • After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

    -Cynthia Ozick



  • If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.

    -Ralph Ellison



  • I believe talent is like elecricity.We do not understand electricity. We use it.Elecricity makes no judgement.You can plug into it, and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it...I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

    -Maya Angleou



  • A child becomes an adult when he realizes(that) he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

    -Thomas Szasz



  • Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

    -A proverb



  • While I thought that I was learning to live, I have been learning how to die.

    -Leonardo De Vinci