January |
"I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole rest of the earth, I dreamed that was the new city of Friends."
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), American poet |
February |
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
- Andy Warhol (1927 - 1987), American artist |
March |
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist |
April |
"War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero."
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), British dramatist |
May |
"What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), English poet |
June |
"A writer must be objective as a chemist: he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dung-heaps play a very reasonable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian dramatist and short-story writer |
July |
"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."
- Georges Pompidou (1911 - 1974), French statesman; President of France from 1969 |
August |
"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent."
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), German-born theoretical physicist |
September |
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it."
- Max Frisch (1911 - 91), Swiss novelist and dramatist |
October |
"Providence has not created mankind entirely independent or entirely free. It is true that around every man a fatal circle is traced, beyond which he cannot pass; but within the wide verge of that circle he is powerful and free."
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 59), French historian and politician |
November |
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
- Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960), British politician |
December |
"One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster."
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) British philosopher |
