Thank you. Updated and added. Charles Dudley Warner was born 1829.
By the by, I have been amazed at the number of authors that should be in the database but are not.
If anyone sees a major omission, let me know, along with some quotes, and they will be added.
Thanks again.


"The optimist and pessimist both contribute to socity. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute. - Gil Stern

Miguel de Unamuno

Birth date; September 29, 1864
Death date; December 31, 1936
Alive: No
Career; writer and philosopher
Nationality; Spanish

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
~Miguel de Unamuno

Louis Untermeyer

Birth date;October 1, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA
Death date; December 18, 1977
Alive: No
Career; author, poet and editor, well known for his Marxist beliefs
Nationality; American

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
~Louis Untermeyer

From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last the fight is won,
God, keep me still unsatisfied.
~Louis Untermeyer, Prayer, last verse

John Updike

Birth date; March 18, 1932 in in Reading, Pennsylvania
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; novelist and short story writer most famous works are the Rabbit series
Nationality; American

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
~John Updike

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
~John Updike

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
~ John Updike, A Month of Sundays

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
~John Updike, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar 79

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
~John Updike, Quoted in George Plimpton ed, Writers at Work, Viking 76

Peter Ustinov

Birth date; April 16, 1921 in London
Death date; March 28, 2004
Alive: No
Career; Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, Actor, winner of two Oscars (Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964)). He also won two Golden Globe awards. President of the World Federalist Movement
Nationality; British-born, became a Swiss citizen in the late 1960s

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
~Peter Ustinov

Paul Valery

Birth date; October 30, 1871 in Sète, Hérault
Death date; July 20, 1945 in Paris
Alive: No
Career; Writer and poet of the Symbolist school
Nationality; French

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
~Paul Valery

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows
~Paul Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
~Paul Valery

Mies van der Rohe

Birth date; March 27, 1886 in Aachen, Germany
Death date; August 17, 1969
Alive: No
Career; architect and designer.
Nationality; German, lived in USA after 1937

Less is More
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, attributed, York Herald Tribune (June 28, 1959).

NOTE; This from The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996, Entry number 39486, where it says “For an earlier use of this aphorism, closely associated with Mies Van Der Rohe, see Browning on style.”

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Henry Van Dyke

Birth date; 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date; 1933
Alive: No
Career; Author, educator and clergyman
Nationality; American

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
~Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
~Henry Van Dyke

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
~Henry Van Dyke

Vincent van Gogh

Birth date; March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Holland
Death date; July 29, 1890
Alive: No
Career; Painter
Nationality; Dutch

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~Vincent Van Gogh

Henry David Thoreau

Birth date; July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Death date; May 6, 1862 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Alive: No
Career; author, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher
Nationality; American

Lee Trevino

Birth date; December 1, 1939 in Dallas, Texas, USA
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; professional golfer
Nationality; American

Jack Trice

Birth date; 1902 in Hiram, Ohio, USA
Death date; 8 October, 1923
Alive: No
Career; Iowa State's first African-American athlete
Nationality; American

Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet known by the pen name Voltaire

Birth date; November 21, 1694 in Paris, France
Death date; May 30, 1778 in Paris
Alive: No
Career; Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher
Nationality; French

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Birth date; August 6, 1809 in Lincolnshire,, England
Death date; October 6, 1892
Alive: No
Career; poet
Nationality; English

Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain

Birth date; November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA
Death date; April 21, 1910
Alive: No
Career; humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer
Nationality; American

Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Tolstoy

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
~ Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
~ Leo Tolstoy opening of Anna Karenina

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Sevastopol in May 1855

Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Birth date; October 3, 1925 in West Point, New York, USA
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; writer of novels, plays and essays
Nationality; American

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
~Gore Vidal

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
~Gore Vidal

Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro

Birth date; October 15, 70 BC in Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (present day northern Italy)
Death date; 19 BC in Greece
Alive: No
Career; Poet, author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid
Nationality; Latin

Fortune favors the brave.
~Virgil, Aeneid

Kurt Vonnegut

Birth Date; November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis
Death Date;
Alive: Yes
Career; novelist, satirist, and graphic artist
Nationality; American

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
~Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

John Muir Alive:No
John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was an environmentalist, naturalist, traveler, writer, inventor, and scientist. He is, however, probably best remembered as one of the greatest champions of the Yosemite area's natural wonders.

Malcolm Muggeridge Alive:No
Malcolm Muggeridge (March 24, 1903–November 14, 1990) was a British journalist, author and media personality.

Mary Wortley Montagu Alive:No
Mary Wortley Montagu: The Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762), was an English authoress.

Like so?

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Yep, that's fine. These are all updated and thank you.
In adding the Tolstoy quote about families I discovered that Quoteland had a category "Family" but it wasn't active, so that has been corrected too.

Tacitus
Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

Birth date; c55
Death date; c117
Alive: No
Career; Historian, orator, lawyer and senator; major works—the Annals and the Histories
Nationality; Roman

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
~Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore
also called Gurudev

Birth date; May 7, 1861 in Jorasanko, Kolkata
Death date; August 7, 1941
Alive: No
Career; poet, Brahmo philosopher and nationalist; won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913
Nationality; Bengali

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps— does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (1912) 61

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener (1915), 5

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, 85

Gay Talese

Birth date; February 7, 1932
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Journalist and author
Nationality; American

S. G. Tallentyre
Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre,

Birth date; 1868
Death date; 1919
Alive: No
Career; writer and the personal biographer of Voltaire
Nationality; English

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
~ S. G.Tallentyre

Harold Taylor

Birth date; September 28, 1914 in Toronto, Canada
Death date; 1993
Alive: No
Career; Philosopher of education, college president, and social activist
Nationality; Canadian

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
~Harold Taylor

Teresa of Avila

Birth date; March 28, 1515 in Avila, Old Castile, Spain
Death date; October 4, 1582 in Alba de Tormes
Alive: No
Career; mystic and monastic reformer, canonized in 1622
Nationality; Spanish

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
~ Teresa of Avila

William Makepeace Thackeray

Birth date; July 18, 1811 in Calcutta, India
Death date; December 24, 1863
Alive: No
Career; novelist, his works include Vanity Fair
Nationality; English

Margaret Thatcher

Birth date; born 13 October 1925 in Grantham , Lincolnshire, England
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; British Stateswoman and Prime Minister
Nationality; English

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~Margaret Thatcher

Joe Theismann

Birth date; September 9, 1949
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; football quarterback and television football announcer.
Nationality; American

Dylan Thomas

Birth date; October 27, 1914 in Swansea, Wales
Death date; November 9, 1953 in New York City
Alive: No
Career; Poet and writer. his most famous poems include "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and "And Death Shall Have No Dominion."
Nationality; Welsh

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
~Dylan Thomas

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
~Dylan Thomas

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
~Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, 1954

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
~Dylan Thomas

Thank you.
The Tallentyre quote "The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit" needs a source. I decided to go with Emerson:

quote:

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life (1860) Considerations by the Way

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Thank you for the help, much appreciated.

Thenostromo,

These are people I have not done because of some problem. Perhaps you may be able to find or identify them? - otherwise I could try again later after they are all done. Also would you rather only sourced quotes?

Cannot find or distinguish from another of that name;

Christina Wodtke,
Flora Whittemore,
Robert Wibbelsman,
Walter D. Wintle,
H. U. Westermayer,
Matt Welsh,
Kenneth A. Wells,
Brian Weir,
William Gordon Wallace,
William A. Ward is he Adolphus William Ward?
Henry Watton,
Doug Taylor,

Tom Van Vleck (is this the one??)

Alive: Yes
Career; co-author of the CTSS MAIL command and a developer of Multics
Nationality; American

Addison Walker (is this the one?)

Birth date; September 3, 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; comic artist, creator of the comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois
Nationality; American

William M. Thayer (couldn’t find information only this quote)

The life of Benjamin Franklin is stranger than fiction. Its realities surpass the idealities of novelists. Imagination would scarcely venture to portray such victories over poverty, obscurity, difficulties, and hardships. The tact, application, perseverance, and industry, that he brought to his life-work, make him an example for all time.
~William M. Thayer, FROM BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD, LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1889, preface

Christina Wodtke definitely is the founder of the Boxes and Arrows.com. I say this from reading some of the articles she has written on the site, the philosophy of which echoes on the first quote on her page on quoteland.



She is Alive and is presently working as Director of Design for the Search and Marketplace group at Yahoo! She is an Information Architect by profession. She stays in Palo Alto, CA

According to this Amazon Link she is born on 10/22.
Dunno which year.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!

It seem ya'll are doing great. If anyone wants to send me a list of authors I could help out. I other than the authors posted here, how do I know what's been check or what someone else is working on? It would be easy for me to find info on most authors seeing as how I have the school library and thier resources. If someone can't find info on a person, let me know and I can run a search.

I have a few ideas for authors to add, but first I'll check if they are already listed.

"I'm telling you. People come and go in this Forest, and they say, 'It's only Eeyore, so it doesn't count.' They walk to and fro saying, 'Ha ha!' But do they know anything about A? They don't. It's just three sticks to them. But to the Educated - mark this, little Piglet- to the Educated, not meaning Poohs and Piglets, it's a great and glorious A." --Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin:



Born on October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California, daughter of writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber.
She is a Fullbright Fellow(1953) and a writer of science fiction(also writes fantasy) by profession.
She is still Alive

She is most famous for her EarthSea books which are compared with the Narnia Chronicles and Lord of the Rings.

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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. … Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. … Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.
-- Ursula K Le Guin, from The Introduction to "The Left Hand of Darkness"

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!

Thank you for that input, EeyoreLynn. I should have been more forward thinking with this project.
I have now posted a "working" list of authors at
http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=7411968032&m=320105869&r=320105869#320105869

I have gone through the first 300 and have removed any authors that have already been addressed, as well as the ones covered on this thread.

I cannot stress this enough: try not to waste time on people that are unknown and usually have only one quotation listed for them. If you look into an author and can quickly see that the search will produce little results, then mention that you looked at them and I will remove them from the "working" list.

Now that I've looked at the size of this project, it appears daunting. Oh well, I really appreciate the help with this "pet" project. I was not asked to do this. It really is a result of having been caught by casual Internet surfers emailing Quoteland to say "hey, so-and-so isn't dead!" and it took off from there.


And Ananya, your suggested quote from Le Guin resulted in adding "Science Fiction" as a topic. Thanks.

[This message was edited by thenostromo on 10-06-05 at 05:26 PM.]

Abu Hamid Al Gazali

Born: 1058
Birthplace: Khorasan, Iran
Died: 1111
Best Known As: Medieval Islamic philosopher and theologian

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"Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!"
-- Al Gazali

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Long live Science Fiction!

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!

Thanks, I'll see what I can do. After all I've paid 6 years of tution, I should put that to good use right?

"I'm telling you. People come and go in this Forest, and they say, 'It's only Eeyore, so it doesn't count.' They walk to and fro saying, 'Ha ha!' But do they know anything about A? They don't. It's just three sticks to them. But to the Educated - mark this, little Piglet- to the Educated, not meaning Poohs and Piglets, it's a great and glorious A." --Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

448. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld



Born: July 29, 1905
Died: September 18, 1961
Youngest of four sons of Agnes (Almquist) Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Prime Minister of Sweden. Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 for a five-year term and reelected in 1957.
Recepient of Nobel Peace Prize.

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Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide awake.
-- Dag Hammarskjold, from Markings, p. 31

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811. Anaïs Nin



Born: 23rd February, 1903 in Neuilly, France.
Died: 14th January 1977
Career: French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer.

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"I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
Les Jeux."
-- Anais Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol 7, 1980

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!

TN,

I was just checking up on the author info for Anais Nin, and saw that you mentioned Nationality as French. I think I skipped telling you above that though she was born in France, she migrated to America and was a US National till her death.

Also I noticed, that you have not updated the Hammmarskjold info.

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795. Vladimir Nabokov



Born: 23rd April, 1899
Died: 2nd July, 1977
Born in a wealthy, aristocratic Russian Family in St. Petersburg to Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and his wife Elena, née Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova.

Career: novelist, critic, and acknowledged lepidopterist, Best known for his novel, Lolita.

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"Readers are not sheep, and not every pen(pun) tempts them."
-- Vladimir Nabokov, from LECTURES ON LITERATURE (1980).

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Interesting titbit on his birth date:
His date of birth was April 10, 1899, by the Julian calendar. The Gregorian equivalent was then April 22, but it changed to April 23 in 1900, while Russia did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918. Accordingly, his date of birth may correctly be considered as April 22, as some sources show, but April 23 is the birthday that he actually observed. SOURCE



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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!

Yes, I did update the Hammarskjöld information, I was just unable to input all the info. All the fields I have to work with are

quote:

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birth date
death date
Alive: yes/no
Career
Nationality

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And the number of characters in each field is limited.
I suggest not spending too much time on researching these. Quoteland will never be able to "compete" with other web resources for this information. I am primarily trying to correct blatant errors and to provide the limited information that our fields will allow.


"Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer home."

George M. Adams 1878-1962
American Author

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
English essayist, poet, & politician

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Aesop, 620 BC-560 BC
Ancient Greek Fabulist and Author of a collection of Greek fables.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Slow but steady wins the race

What a splendid head, yet no brain.


Mitch Albom b. 23 May 1958
Jewish-American sportswriter novelist, newspaper columnist, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
Italian Author and Poet.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Follow your own star!

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.

He listens well who takes notes.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Please don't ask me to keep in step... It's hard enough just to stay in line.

[This message was edited by Whoizit on 10-12-05 at 11:29 AM.]

I have the day off, it is chilly & wet. In short a perfect day to help with your project.

Woody Allen (b. December 1, 1935)
American, US movie actor, comedian, & director

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC)
Greek mathematician & inventor

Eureka! [I have found it!](On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.)

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Greek Philosopher

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.


Marcus Aurelius (April 26,121-March 17,180)
Emporer of Rome from 161-180 CE

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
American Poet

Dwell in possibility.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.


How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!


Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
British Prime Minister and Novelist.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Success is the child of audacity.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Little things affect little minds.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Please don't ask me to keep in step... It's hard enough just to stay in line.

Norman Thomas

Birth date; November 20, 1884 in Marion, Ohio, US
Death date; December 19, 1968
Alive: No
Career; Socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party.
Nationality; American

J. R. R. Tolkien

Birth date; January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now Free State), South Africa,
Death date; September 2, 1973
Alive: No
Career; author, books include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Nationality; English

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
~J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

…..for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
~J. R. R. Tolkien

Lily Tomlin

Birth date; September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Actress and comedian
Nationality; American

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~Lily Tomlin

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
~Lily Tomlin

Arnold J. Toynbee

Birth date; April 14, 1889 in London, England
Death date; October 22, 1975
Alive: No
Career; historian
Nationality; British

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
~Arnold J. Toynbee

Harry S Truman

Birth date; May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri, USA
Death date; December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Alive: No
Career; Politician, Vice President and President of USA
Nationality; American

Thomas Tusser

Birth date; C1524 in Rivenhall, Essex, England
Death date; 3 May 1580.
Alive: No
Career; Poet and farmer, best known for his poem A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie (1557)
Nationality; English

Kenneth Tynan

Birth date; April 2, 1927 in Birmingham, England
Death date; July 26, 1980 in Santa Monica, California
Alive: No
Career; Theatre critic and author
Nationality; British

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
~Kenneth Tynan

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
~ Kenneth Tynan, (New York Times Magazine, Jan 9th 1966)

Chuang Tzu

Birth date; circa 4th century BCE
Death date; circa 4th century BCE
Alive: No
Career; philosopher in ancient China, thought to be the author of seven chapters of Chuang Tzu, The Taoist book
Nationality; Chinese

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~Chuang Tzu

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
~Chuang Tzu

Lao Tzu

Birth date; 4th or 6th century BC
Death date; 4th or 6th century BC
Alive: No
Career; a major figure in Chinese philosophy He is credited with writing the Tao Te Ching
Nationality; Chinese

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
~Lao Tzu