Sunday 13 July 2014

A Quote A Day Is Nothing To Sneeze At.

A little sentence or paragraph can make a big difference.

" Seize the day, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow. "
Horace ( 65-8 B C ) Odes 25-24 BC
" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young,
he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "

Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall, ' Batchelors' 1882
" A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. "
Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784 )
" One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks. "
La Rochefoucauld ( 1613-1680 ) Maxims
" Method actors give you an photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting. "
Charles Laughton ( 1899-1962 ) in Playboy 1962
" I like to write when I feel spiteful: it's like having a good sneeze. "
D H Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ) letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith Nov 1913
" A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose. "
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1792-1781 ) Emilia Galotti
" If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it. "

Thomas Mann ( 1875-1955 ) Death in Venice 1913
" No married man's ever made up his mind till he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. "
Somerset Maugham ( 1874-1965 ) Lady Frederick
" It is a public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret."
Moliére ( pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673 ) Tartuffe 1664

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