Quotes Du Jour

�The character of Iowa is essentially bucolic in the best senses of that word (and, to be quite honest, occasionally some of the worst).�
- Phil Stong (1899 - 1957), American writer: �Hawkeyes�, 1940.

�Nothing is so hard to understand as that there are human beings in this world besides one�s self and one�s set.�
- William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920), American writer, critic, editor and poet: �Their Wedding Journey�, 1872.

�Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.�
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), American educationist, politician and writer: graduation address, Antioch College, 1859.

�On a sofa upholstered in panther skin
Mona did research in original sin.�
- William Plomer (1903 � 1973), South African-born British writer and editor: �Mews Flat Mona�, 1960.