Weekly quotes archive

I liked Matt's suggestion of archiving the weekly quotes on this blog. Since this template allows links only to websites (not, for example, Word documents), this is the best method I could think of. I'll update this post once a week, and the link to will be in the sidebar.

Nov. 4, 2007
"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika." - Dorothy Parker

Oct. 28, 2007
"A finished person is a boring person." - Anna Quindlen

Oct. 21, 2007
"Well, there used to be a trail here somewhere ..." - Kent Street

Oct. 14, 2007
"In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone." - Brian Andreas

Oct. 7, 2007
"Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life." - Brian Andreas

Sept. 30, 2007
"You have so many extraordinary gifts -- how can you expect to live an ordinary life?" - "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott

Sept. 23, 2007
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." C.S. Lewis

Sept. 16, 2007
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Sept. 9, 2007
“If one could run without getting tired I don’t think one would often want to do anything else.” C.S. Lewis

Sept. 2, 2007
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton

Aug. 26, 2007
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Gandhi

Aug. 19, 2007
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt

Aug. 12, 2007
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” Anna Quindlen

Aug. 5, 2007
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” Warren Beatty

July 29, 2007
“Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort – of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

July 22, 2007
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” Socrates

July 15, 2007
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” Thoreau

July 8, 2007
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott

July 1, 2007
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” Gandhi

June 24, 2007
“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.” Frank Shorter

June 17, 2007
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.” Mark Twain

June 10, 2007
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” Native American saying

June 3, 2007
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” Plato

May 27, 2007
“It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” C.W. Leadbeater

May 20, 2007
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasting time.” T.S. Eliot

May 13, 2007
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.” Henry van Dyke

May 6, 2007
“A favorite speculation of mine, that we shall enjoy ourselves hereafter by having what we called happiness on earth repeated in a finer tone and so repeated . . .” Keats