GaryP's Quotes
- "What tho' on homely fare we dine
wear hodden-grey and a'that;
Give fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a'that.
For a'that, and a'that.
Their tinsel show and a'that;
The honest man, tho' e'er so poor,
Is king o'men, for a'that
."
- - Robert Burns --- For A'That
(A tribute to my father, who died on February 14, 2001)
Last modified: March 15, 2001
Previous Quotes
- "Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
- - Voltaire --- Candide
- "Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself."
- - John Milton --- Paradise Regained, book iv, line 327
- "Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom."
- - Shakespeare --- The Tempest
- "...the Crotonians burnt the Pythagorean school.
But burning schools, or men for that matter, has always
been singularly unhelpful in stamping out unorthodoxy."
- - Bertrand Russell --- Wisdom of the West
- "In Wildness is the preservation of the world."
- - Thoreau --- "Walking"
- "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation
in principle is always a vice."
- - Tom Paine --- The Rights of Man
- "Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain."
- - Friedrich von Schiller --- Joan of Arc
- "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- - Shakespeare --- Hamlet
- "To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
- - William Blake --- "Auguries of Innocence"
- "There are infinite possibilities of error, and more
cranks take up fashionable errors than unfashionable truths."
- - Bertrand Russell --- Unpopular Essays
- "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- - Henry David Thoreau --- Walden
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