Nov
20
2012
Quoting Wilde
“But I like talking to a brick wall–it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”
-Cecil Graham
(from Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde)
Oct
14
2011
Quoting Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
-from Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oct
22
2009
Quoting Thoreau
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…”
-Excerpted from Walden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Jul
15
2008
Quoting Coleridge
“Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where
Nor any drop to drink.”
-Excerpt from “The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
