I have an iGoogle page. (I cannot stand the trend of putting an i in front of everything these days and I can barely forgive Google for having fallen into this trap, but never the less it is true.) It is a personalised Google page, it opens up instead of the normal Google page. You add widgets to the page, these are little tools set up by other websites and they display a little bit of the content of that page. One of my widgets is quote of the day. Every day it gives me three new quotations from notable, usually American, persons. If one really catches the eye I like to make a note of it on a txt doc on my desk top. I've been doing this for over a year and I've got just over 30 of them in my collection, so I thought I'd share some of the those that I thought were the best.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Joseph Baretti
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, jr.
One of Martin Luther King's less snappy moments, but the sentiment is a powerful one none the less. Amen to that brother.