Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday Quotations

10/4/10.

“In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can’t be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.”

 --- Jonathan Miller (1934 - )


“No, Groucho is not my real name. I’m breaking it in for a friend.”

--- Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx (1890 – 1977)


“All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”

--- Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)


“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”

--- Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)


“A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.”

--- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 – 1935)

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