Quotations

[tesla]

K, here are my five quotations from that quotations page. It took me a dozen pages to find five I liked, FWIW:


When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)


You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1


Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)


Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)



Plus one for the buttonlass

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)

Comments

Shaw epigrams

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

(I'm a Shaw freak.)
The preface to Man and Superman, explainging that this is his “Don Juan” play is not one of the better prefaces, but at the other end . . .
In the play, Jack Tanner has written an inflammatory pamphlet, “Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion” (“by Jack Tanner, M.I.R.C.”, member of the Idle Rich Class), which has a lot to do with everyone's feelings about him. Shaw, of course, actually wrote the thing, and added it to the play as sort of an appendix. It finishes with “Maxims for Revolutionaries”, which is page after page of Shavian epigrams; the richest trove of them in any one place.
The play is so long that one half of one act (“Don Juan in Hell”) is sometimes presented as a theatrical event all by itself, but flip to the last few pages and have a really good time.