Me and my habit of collecting quotes
I sure do like quotes. I wonder if this obsession(?) is strange to those around me--I get amused looks when I'm "caught" collecting quotes or writing them up on a bulletin board... It's just very interesting and at times enlightening to read what people have said in the past.
"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
--Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
--Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
--Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875-1965)
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)
"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
--Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
--Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
--Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875-1965)
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)