Saturday, February 18, 2006

quotes...

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
----Robert Frost

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. "
----Victor Hugo

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
----Aldous Huxley

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "
----Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
----John W. Gardner

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. "
----Daniel Webster

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
----Robert Frost

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
----Robert Frost

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
----Robert Frost

hmm... I think I am liking Robert Frost, here.... :-)

and wow... what about this?
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
----Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

just some stuff I found...on www.brainyquote.com

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