SiGe Maison Q u o t e s

	g u e s t b o o k \| e m a i l m e
	Colors fade, temples crumble, dynasties fall, but wise words endure.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away (John Muir - "Save the Redwoods")

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit

People who think they know it all annoy those of us who really do

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks

Think like Men of Action, Act like Men of Thought

A drop of reason is worth more than a flood of words

Death is light as a feather, honor has the weight of a mountain (Japanese proverb quoted by marine at Iwo Jima)

Every man dies, but not every man really lives

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after (Henry David Thoreau)

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

When you're in (sh)it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut

Wise men think what they say, Fools say what they think

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom (Henry David Thoreau)

We are each angels with only one wing and we can fly only by embracing one another

The reasonable person adapts themself to the outside world. The unreasonable person expect the outside world to adapt to them. Therefore, all progress is made by the unreasonable person.

Quotes from U.S. History

One country, one constitution, and one destiny. (Daniel Webster)

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free (Lincoln)

I am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose. I count it all joy. I have fought the good fight, and have, as I trust, finished my course. This is a beautiful country (John Brown)

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice � I am in earnest�I will not equivocate�I will not excuse�I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard! (William Lloyd Garrison)

Exerts from Literature

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door:
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon�s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o�er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted�nevermore! (Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven)

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 no, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Henry David Thoreau - Walden)

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself then be crowded on a velvet cushion (Walden)

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors. (Marcus Aurelius as quoted by Garp in The World According To Garp)

A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wings between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that ethereal thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death grasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. (Herman Melville - Moby Dick)

last quote added: 4-99
last updated: 11-24-99