Futility Closet

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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on April 10th, 2008

"A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already." — Lin Yutang


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on April 3rd, 2008

"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity." — Robert Louis Stevenson


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on March 27th, 2008

"No man was ever wise by chance." — Seneca


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on March 20th, 2008

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president." — Kurt Vonnegut


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on March 13th, 2008

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult." — Seneca


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on March 6th, 2008

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." — Tolstoy


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on February 28th, 2008

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A new student once asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?"

The geometer called his slave and said, "Give him three obols, since he must make gain out of what he learns."


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on February 21st, 2008

"Round numbers are always false." — Samuel Johnson


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on February 14th, 2008

"Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom." — Thomas Carlyle


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Posted in Quotations by Greg Ross on February 7th, 2008

"Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door." — Charles Lamb