Favorite Quotations
In the affairs of daily life, certain thoughts spring to the mind, highlighting important features of the situation. Here are my favorite quotations.
| He has the facts, but not the phosporescence of learning. - Emily Dickinson |
| Make things as simple as they can be, but not simpler than they are. - Albert Einstein |
| How shall I know, unless I go to Cairo and Cathy, whether or not,
this blessed spot is blest in every way. full - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| If ifs and buts were but candy and nuts, everyday would be Christmas. |
| A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. - George Patton |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind. - Emerson |
| Memory - Distillation of the Past, Snapshot of the Present, Cauldron of the Future. My coinage for Limited Memory |
| A problem can't be solved in the situation that caused it. - Albert Einstein, paraphrase |
| ... can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. |
| There's more in the world than dreamt up in your philosophy. - Shakespeare |
| A minute to write, a lifetime to learn. |
| A cigarette is the perfect type of the perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. - Oscar Wilde |
| Tobacco - it's easy to quit. I've done it a thousand times myself. |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde |
