Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
Man is a useless passion.
JeanPaul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Words are loaded pistols.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Baha'u'llah
What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, -- so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland. There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=161
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Frie
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,is our destined end or way;But to act, that each tomorrowFind us farther than today.Art is long, and Time is fleeting,And our heats, though stout and brave,Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.In the world's broad field of battle,In the bivouac of life,Be not like dumb, driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its deadAct,- act in the living Present!Heart within, and God o'erhead.Footprints, that perhaps another,Sailing o'er life's solemn main,a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,Seeing, shall take heart again.Let us then be up and doing,with a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Ps
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Upton Sinclair
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone de Beauvoir
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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