...as Elbert Hubbard [(author, editor, printer (1856-1915)] said: "Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."  Er..., I'll try to write just when my five minutes strike, deal? ;-)

My source of inspiration is generally quotations included in the message I receive from A-Word-a-Day (check it out, it's really worthy).

Some of the files below are ready (those like this: ** [title]**) - some are still being written/edited.

• **Copies**
  "We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?" [Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)]
• Enough time
  "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." [H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer]
• Unrehearsed
  "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." [Sean O'Casey, playwright (1880-1964)]
• Writer
  "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." [William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)]
  "The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought." [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
  "A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." [Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (1873-1914)]
  "Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators." [Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)]
• Geography
  "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." [Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)]
• On language
  "Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." [Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )]
  "Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas." [Dale Spender, writer (1943- )]
  "Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." [Dr. George W. Cran]
• On simplicity
  "Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need." [Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)]
• Rekindling the inner spirit
  "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." [Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875-1965)]
• Unlearning
  "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." [Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist, editor (1934- )]
• Eclectic or confused?
  "If you say you are eclectic but cannot state the principles of your eclecticism, you are not eclectic, merely confused." [Henry Widdowson, who was quoted in a 1997 Michael Lewis book]
• Invitation
  "Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." [Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (1751-1816)]
• What hurts
  "It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts." [Oscar Levant]
• A matter of point-of-view
  "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." [African proverb]
• On humbleness
  "After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box." [Italian proverb]
  "In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." [Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)]

 Questions? Comments?
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last modified: September 10, 2006