Monday, December 6, 2010

Monday Quotations

12/6/10.

"Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style."

--- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)


"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."

--- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)


"We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast, and only very little from a state of things."

--- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

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