Quotes Du Jour

�But a man is not made for defeat� A man can be destroyed but not defeated.�
- Ernest Hemingway (1898 � 1961), American writer and war correspondent: �The Old Man and the Sea�, 1952.

�Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.�
- Voltaire (1694 � 1778), French philosopher, dramatist, poet, historian, writer and critic: �Zadig, or Fate�, 1747.

�The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.�
- Hermann Broch (1886 � 1951), Austrian novelist: the doctor, in �The Spell�, 1976; tr.1987.

�Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right colour lip-gloss on. They have no shame. They�re like bull elks in the field. It�s a scent to them, a smell.�
- Tori Amos (b. 1963), American rock singer: in �New Musical Express� (London), 1994, quoted in �NME Book of Quotes�, 1995.