Quote of the Day

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch -

Quote of the Day

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

- P. J. O'Rourke

Quote of the Day

"metaphor--I use them. They keep me regular."
--Paul Violi


... as quoted by Halvard Johnson

Groucho Marx said -

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

Apropos of absolutely nothing ...

Quote for Someday

Tradition and progress are the two great enemies of the human race.
- Paul Valery


Thanks to David Bircumchaw for this one.

Quote of the Day (It ain't necessarily so ...)

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac

Thanks, Del.

Quote of the Day

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

- George Orwell


Thanks, Del, for this one.

Quote of the Day

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud