The Living Dead Series 1

 

Sep 29 - Oct 5, 2019

 

     1 -  From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. Michelangelo

     2 - Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates

     3 - There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. Robert Peel

     4 - No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings. William Blake

     5 - Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders,

           catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin

           would be unknown to man! Jules Verne

     6 - The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious

            rhythm. Geometry and anguish. Federico Garcia Lorca

     7 - When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions. William Shakespeare

 

Oct 6 - 12 
 

     8 - He that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. John

            Milton

     9 - Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake

   10 - Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to

            discover America. James Joyce

   11 - Macho does not prove mucho. Zsa Zsa Gabor

  12 - Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. Doug Larson

  13 - History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to

           do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis

  14 - Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. Jules Verne
 

Oct 13 - 19

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   15 - When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution

           of this world ends by suicide. Victor Hugo

   16 - From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Dr. Seuss

   17 - There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. William

           Shakespeare

   18 - Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the

           sky. Lewis Carroll

   19 - I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any

           sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. Katharine Hepburn

  20 - Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman

  21 - The mind in its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven out of Hell and a Hell out of Heaven. John

          Milton
 

Oct 20 - 26
 

22 - Do not wait to strike while the iron is hot, make it hot by striking. W. B. Yeats

23 - If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else! Yogi Berra

24 - You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

          Robin Williams

25 - The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli

26 - The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart. John Candy

27 - Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. Erma Bombeck

28 - If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand

         of the same master. Michelangelo

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Oct 27 - Nov 2

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29 - Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Victor Hugo

30 - Though she be but little, she is fierce. William Shakespeare

31 - What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot

32 - I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn’t know what it was. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going. Diana, Princess of Wales

33 - My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne

34 - A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon

35 - Whoever is wise in love, loves most and says the least. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 

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Nov 3 - 9

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36 - For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare

37 - Let cloud shapes swarm,  Let chaos storm,  I wait for form. Robert Frost

38 - The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. Kahlil Gibran

39 - As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. Leonard Cohen

40 - The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. Leonardo da Vinci

41 - We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. George William Russell

42 - It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot

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Nov 10 - 16

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43 - Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne

44 - Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe

45 - There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

46 - I read poetry to save time. Marilyn Monroe

47 - Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman

48 - I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams. – Diana, Princess of Wales

49 - Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. Mae West

 

Nov 17 - 23

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50 - What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. Mary Shelley

51 - I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo

52 - Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot

53 - For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen

54 - How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss

55 - The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo DaVinci

56 - I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. Erma Bombeck
 

Nov 24 - 30 

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57 - Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon

58 - The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. Jules Verne

59 - What would be ugly in a garden would be beauty in a mountain. Victor Hugo

60- To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo

61 - They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare

62 - If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe

63 - Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. George William Russell
 

Dec 1 - 7

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64 - They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare

65 - Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like. Jane Austen

66 - A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton

67 - A lie that is half a truth is the blackest of lies.  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

68 - Can I see another's woe and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief and not seek for kind relief?" William Blake

69 - I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep." Walt Whitman

70 - As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." Socrates
 

Dec 8 - 14

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71 - If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. Kahlil Gibran

72 - My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate." Katharine Hepburn

73 - I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going while you've still got them. Mae West

74 - People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me. – Diana, Princess of Wales

75 - A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo

76 - The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci

77 - When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. Dr. Seuss

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Dec 15 - 21

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78 - To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo

79 - Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo

80 - It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. Jules Verne

81 - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare

82 - But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. William Shakespeare

83 - Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. Douglas Hyde

84 - Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

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Dec 22 - 28

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85 - Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. Lewis Carroll

86 - To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. A. A. Milne

87 - Once you attempt legislation on religious grounds you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. W. B. Yeats

88 -The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Niccolo Machiavelli

89 - I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal. Robin Williams

90 - Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. Marilyn Monroe

91 - We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein

92 - There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces. - Nikos Kazantzakis

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Jan 19 - 25, 2020

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93 Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen

94 The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and material Nature bade me weep no more. Mary Shelley

95 "Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance." James Joyce

96 The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot

97 Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. Federico Garcia Lorca

98 As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare

99 I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. Jules Verne
 

Jan 26 - Feb 1

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100 Whoever overcomes by force has overcome but half his foe. John Milton

101 The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake

102 How can we know the dancer from the dance? W. B. Yeats

103 I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson

104 I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. Niccolo Machiavelli

105 By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

106 Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran

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Feb 2 - 8

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107 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Victor Hugo

108 The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. Jules Verne

109 We are all at times unconscious prophets. Charles Spurgeon

110 My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo

111 A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition. Rudyard Kipling

112 Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov

113 My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. Leonard Cohen

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Feb 9 - 15

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114 You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams

115 We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't. Zsa Zsa Gabor

116 Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe

117 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

118 Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson

119 The little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for. Robert Frost

120 In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you, (Essays, Letters and Miscellanies) Leo Tolstoy

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Feb 16 - 22

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121 I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. John Candy

122 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci

123 The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola Tesla

124 Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss

125 A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Hallowe'en. Erma Bombeck

126 Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Victor Hugo

127 Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! Jules Verne

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Feb 23 - 29

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128 Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom. Tommy Douglas

129 God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare

130 The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe

131 It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' A. A. Milne

132 Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll

133 If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis

134 We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot

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