Quirky World

Friday, 12 October 2012

"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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

Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)

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

Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)

"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."

T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

"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)

Strange calls in the night songs unsoothing the soul the place where the gods had left I had arrived I was done, so done I was ready, at l...