In literature imitations do not imitate
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
Jonathan Gash
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
John Bentham
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
E. C. Bentley
What is high finance? It?s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It?s no more than that.
John Bentley
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Nicolas Bentley
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Timothy Bentley
Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.
D A Benton
If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.
Itzhak Bentov
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
Nicolai A. Berdyaev
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.
Candice Bergen
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
P. L. Berger
What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
Cassandra Clare
God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans.
Santosh Kalwar
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
A good beginning makes a good end.
English Proverb
Nothing is going to change unless you first change
Steve Maraboli
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...
Stephen King
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.
Jodi Picoult
On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.
Orson Scott Card
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Terry Pratchett
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
E. M. Cioran
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities
Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
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