Wednesday, March 12, 2003
�Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.�
- Joyce Grenfell (1910 � 1979), British actress and writer: �Stately as a Galleon�, 1978.
�The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.�
- Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer: �My Mailer Problem�, first published in �Esquire� (New York), September 1971, reprinted in �The Madwoman�s Clothes�, 1986.
�It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.�
- Marguerite Duras (1914 � 1996), French author and film-maker: �The Chimneys of India Song� from �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
March 10, 2003
�At ev�ry word a reputation dies.�
- Alexander Pope (1688 � 1744), English poet, translator and editor: �The Rape of the Lock�, 1714.
�Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.�
- Seneca (c. 4 BC � AD 65), Roman philosopher, poet, dramatist, essayist, rhetorician and statesman: �Epistles�
�We never remark any passion or principal in others, of which, in some degree or other, we may not find a parallel in ourselves.�
- David Hume (1711 � 1776), Scottish philosopher and political economist: �A Treatise of Human Nature�, 1739.
- Joyce Grenfell (1910 � 1979), British actress and writer: �Stately as a Galleon�, 1978.
�The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.�
- Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer: �My Mailer Problem�, first published in �Esquire� (New York), September 1971, reprinted in �The Madwoman�s Clothes�, 1986.
�It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.�
- Marguerite Duras (1914 � 1996), French author and film-maker: �The Chimneys of India Song� from �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
March 10, 2003
�At ev�ry word a reputation dies.�
- Alexander Pope (1688 � 1744), English poet, translator and editor: �The Rape of the Lock�, 1714.
�Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.�
- Seneca (c. 4 BC � AD 65), Roman philosopher, poet, dramatist, essayist, rhetorician and statesman: �Epistles�
�We never remark any passion or principal in others, of which, in some degree or other, we may not find a parallel in ourselves.�
- David Hume (1711 � 1776), Scottish philosopher and political economist: �A Treatise of Human Nature�, 1739.
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