Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Options for the truth


"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second."

Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)

Saturday, 6 October 2012

What we teachers secretly hope for


"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Enough time

 
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."

William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)
 

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

GEORGES BRASSENS - La mauvaise reputation

Citation qui mérite qu'on s'y attarde


"La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Enough

  Not everything was stolen, of course, but enough was robbed. Enough that I cannot love anymore. It was not just the one robbery, of course...