from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”
— Mae West, actress
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“The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can… may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight“
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person – you alone – can make the difference. . . .
The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can – your failure or my failure – may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight
for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.”
Archibald Cox, lawyer, professor, special prosecutor/ Watergate
“Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind”
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian, writer
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden, English, poet, critic
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
In Memory: “I don’t put labels on it, I just sing. It’s all in the ear of the listener. Let them decide.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“I don’t put labels on it, I just sing. It’s all in the ear of the listener. Let them decide.”
Nancy Wilson, singer, Grammy award winner, 1937-2018
“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”
Bob Dylan, songwriter
