From
rolanni:
Go
here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your journal. [NB: I took the first 5 that I firmly agree with... a slightly weaker requirement.]
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), Three Men in a Boat, 1889
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825