Reader Response

A while back I posted a selection of quotes and sayings. Lo and behold, today I found blog-readers responding with quotes they cherish. I have not gone to the trouble of checking the authenticity of the quotes or whether they were applied to the rightful author. I just share them, as they came.

“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.” Claude Ferdinand Aaron

I like that one! Sent by “Respass 1834”

“…obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.” Adolph Hitler

Sent by Hansome 55        That quote reminds me of a very famous quote, loaded with truth, also by Hitler:  “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed…”   Truth is—all politicians live by that rule.

“The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”  Ben Stein

Sent by Velega 430

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” Christina Georgina Rossetty

Sent by Sespinosa 237

“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy—from a lack of character.” Dag Hammarskjold

Sent by Ebinger 1000     

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”   Ziggy

Sent by Salata 738

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.”  Woodrow Wilson

Sent by Beverage 954

“I don’t care what they write about me so long as it isn’t true.”   Dorothy Parker

Sent by Billing 1858

“Let every man mind his own business.” Miguel de Cervantes

Sydney 985

More Profound Pronouncements:     The dark side of charisma is narcissism. Sharon Watkins Enron

A wise historian has said that to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant a garden with cut flowers.

“It is impossible to know how precious the mind of a child is if you have not cared for him/her personally.”                                     

                                                                                                                                             Sigrid I Weidenweber

“The Islamic world today is being held prisoner, not by Western but by Islamic captors who are fighting to keep closed a world that a badly outnumbered few are trying to open.”           Salman Rushdie, in his syndicated column.

“A storyniverous planet consumes the writers. A person is like a narrative the strength of which is either revelation or withholding.” David Kirby