Archive for May, 2007

Chinese Proverb

« 31 May 2007 | 6:51 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

It is a false economy to burn your house down out of a desire to inconvenience your mother-in-law.



Marianne Moore

« 30 May 2007 | 6:28 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

I May, I Might, I Must
If you tell me why the fen
appears impassable, I then
will tell you why I think that I
can get across it if I try.



Thomas Edison

« 29 May 2007 | 9:45 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.



Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

« 28 May 2007 | 7:46 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.



Ted Wolff

« 27 May 2007 | 15:29 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Intercalate obligatory platitudinous plagiarism here.



Sarah Teasdale

« 26 May 2007 | 10:47 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

I Am Not Yours
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light. [...]