Monthly Archives: June 2011

June 26, 2011 · 10:34 pm

What’s Your QQ? #223

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.” – Nikita Ivanovich Panin

(Count Panin, 1718-1783, was an influential Russian diplomat and advisor to Catherine the Great.)

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.” – Wendell Phillips

(Phillips, 1811-1884, was an eminent American orator and abolitionist.)

June 12, 2011 · 4:12 pm

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.” – Minor Myers, Jr.

(Myers, 1943-2003, was president of Illinois Wesleyan University.)

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”

– Jonas Mekas

(Mekas, a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, has been called “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.”)