Portal:Philadelphia/Quotes archive/2009
2009[edit]
- December
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- November
"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."
- October
- "A word to the wise …
- "… is enough."—Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790, Philadelphia)
- "… ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice."—Bill Cosby (b. 1937, Philadelphia)
- September
"You lose a lot of time hating people."
- August
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
- July
"You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it."
- June
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
- May
"Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend."
- April
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
- March
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
- February
"I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."
- January
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."