Almanacs Quotes

#1. Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

Alberto Manguel

#2. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#3. Hello" and "good-bye" were a pair of bookends, propping up a vast library of blank volumes, void almanacs, novels full of sentiment I couldn't apprehend

Lauren Collins

#4. I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

Walter Kirn

#5. Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.

William Shakespeare

#6. A recurring theme in his autobiography, as well as in his tales and almanacs, was his amusement at man's ability to rationalize what was convenient. At

Walter Isaacson

#7. Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report ...

William Shakespeare

#8. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

John Denham

#9. People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#10. There comes a period of the imagination to each
a later youth
the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. This has been an interesting fucking week.

Bryan Smith

#12. The universe is a big puzzle;
you complete it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not.

Donna Tartt

#14. If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.

Dave Hunt

#15. Politicians need human misery ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

L. Neil Smith

#16. If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

Carine Roitfeld