Category: You Were Saying

Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, you’ve got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

– Mel Brooks (1926~)

“But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?”

(The Dunciad) – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way, things I had no words for.

– Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)

The principle office of history I take to be this: To prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

– Tacitus (55-117AD) [Cornelius Tacitus] Roman historian, orator, politician

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind’s commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

– Owen Felltham (1602-1668)

For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on un-historic acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

– George Eliot (1819-1880) [Mary Ann Evans]