A place where I can share the quotes that I have collected (and keep collecting) over the years. I have gathered them from all sorts of sources. The "Quote of the Day" posts will always be a quote from a book and may be on any topic.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Quotes of the Days: Jan 25, 26 & 27
Tuesday's Quote:
Anybody can be reasonable, but to be sane is not common.
Oscar Wilde (quoted in)
"The Permanence of Oscar Wilde"
A Jacques Barzun Reader (p. 284)
by Jacques Barzun
Wednesday's Quote:
Trying to make the best of a bad deal is a waste of time, and time is something we have less of the older we get. Dying branches can't bear fruit.
Laura Denning
The Affair at Royalties (pp. 56-7)
by George Baxt
Thursday's Quote:
Could Laura be driven to murder? I suppose anybody could be driven to murder when hatred is the chauffeur.
The Affair at Royalties (p. 91)
by George Baxt
Labels:
bad deals,
George Baxt,
hatred,
Jacques Barzun,
murder,
reasons,
sanity,
time
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