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Quotes of the Day for 8 February 2005 - Dreams

Jules Gabriel Verne was born on this day in 1828 on Ile Feydeau, in the city of Nantes, France. He wrote the earliest popular science fiction, which stories inspired thousands of young dreamers who have made most of Verne's fantasies into daily routine. Please consider this a salute to the dreamers among us.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what men of experience and common sense are thinking than to what is preoccupying the imagination of dreamers.
     - Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.
     - Chuang Tzu, 369 - 286 BC

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
     - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
     - John Barrymore, 1882 - 1942

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