First Pass

This completes my first reading of Quotationary. I'll probably do one more after a few months/years. Have fun!

Zeal - PAUL

It is good to be zealously affected in a good thing.

PAUL (A. D. 1st cent.), Galatians 4:18 (King James Version)

Wisdom - MARCUS AURELIUS

To do justly is the only wisdom.

MARCUS AURELIUS (A. D. 121 - 180), Meditations, 4.37, tr. Maxwell Staniforth, 1964.

Virtue - FRANCIS BACON

Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are...crushed.

FRANCIS BACON (1561 - 1626), "Of Adversity", Essays, 1625.

Universe - ALBERT CAMUS

Gazing up at the stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

ALBERT CAMUS (1913 - 1960), From the closing paragraph, The Stranger, 1942, tr. Stuart Gilbert, 1946.

Time - LORD CHESTERFIELD

No indolence, no laziness; but employ every minute in your life in active pleasures or useful employments.

LORD CHESTERFIELD (1694 - 1773), Letter to his son, 2 January 1752.

States - SOLON

A state is regulated by two things: reward and punishment.

SOLON (630?-560? B. C.), In Cicero (106-43 B. C.), Ad Brutum, 1.15.3.

Sexist Statements - SIGMUND FREUD

Housekeeping and the care and education of children claim the whole person and practically rule out any profession....
It seems a completely unrealistic notion to send women into the struggle for existence in the same way as men. Am I to think of my delicate, sweet girl as a competitor?

SIGMUND FREUD (1856 - 1939), Letter to his fiance Martha Bernays, 15 November 1883, tr. Tania and James Stern, 1960.

Sexist Statements - CHARLES DARWIN

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius.

CHARLES DARWIN (1809 - 1882), The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2nd ed., 19, 1874.

Sexist Statements - WINSTON CHURCHILL

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874 - 1965), 1910? In Robert Lewis Taylor, Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness, 1952.

Sexist Statements - ARISTOTLE

The male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 B. C.), Politics, 1.5, tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1885.

Self-Discipline - ARISTOTLE

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 B. C.), Nicomachean Ethics, 3.5, tr. J. A. K. Thomson, 1953.

Russia - BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow!"

BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY (1887 - 1976), In Hansard (British Government publication), 20 May 1962.

Revolutionary War - JOHN PAUL JONES

I have not yet begun to fight.

JOHN PAUL JONES (1747 - 1792), Naval captain, Attributed, Responding to a British ultimatum that he surrender his sinking ship, the Bon Homme Richard, in a battle he eventually won, 23 September 1779.

Religion - KARL MARX

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

KARL MARX (1818 - 1883), Introduction to Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1844, The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed., ed. Robert C. Tucker, 1978.

Regret - HARRY S. TRUMAN

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884 - 1972), In Janet Landman, Regret: The Persistence of the Possible, 1993.

Reason - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When Reason preaches, if you won't hear her, she'll box your Ears.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, March 1953.

Reading - SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge.

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709 - 1784), 14 July 1763, In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791.

Quotations - WINSTON CHURCHILL

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874 - 1965), My Early Life: A Roving Commission, 9, 1930.

Proverbs - FRANCIS BACON

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.

FRANCIS BACON (1561 - 1626), In Selwyn Gurney Champion, comp., Racial Proverbs: A Selection of the World's Proverbs Arranged Linguistically, p. 4, 1938.

Property - ADAM SMITH

The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

ADAM SMITH (1723 - 1790), The Wealth of Nations, 1.10.2, 1776.

Progress - KARL POPPER

All criticism consists in pointing out some contradictions or discrepancies, and scientific progress consists largely in the elimination of contradictions wherever we find them.

KARL R. POPPER (1902 - 1994), The Open Society and Its Enemies, 2.12.2, 1945.

Progress - ERIC HOFFER

The impulse to escape an untenable situation often prompts human beings not to shrink back but to plunge ahead.

ERIC HOFFER (1902 - 1983), The Ordeal of Change, 15.5, 1964.

Progress - MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI (1869 - 1948), In Young India, 9 April 1925.