The Best of the Quotes (March through June)

March 3, 2008, 7:00 am; posted by
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March 21, 2007: “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” — Cato the Elder

April 6, 2007: “I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself there.” — F. Allen

May 2, 2007: “If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.” – D. Marquis

May 18, 2007: “Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” — F. Allen or E. Kovacs

June 11, 2007: “We have become long on quantity,
But short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
But slow digestion;
Tall men, but short character;
Steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window
But nothing in the room.” — the Dalai Lama

June 13, 2007: “[T]he life appointed to me to live on earth is, like all other lives, a good gift given to me by Love. It is not something to be lightly tossed aside. It is, in fact, never to be tossed aside.

“Death is not a matter of choice. It is a reality to be confronted, not because it is evil, but because it is a good, bringing to an end the richness of Grace poured on us in the fullness of our human lives.

“Though that Grace always includes a hefty portion of suffering, I desire every bit of it, however hard, that I can bear.” — J. Leax


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