Quotes

"If there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more than
they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

A place for everything,
everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good advice is something a man gives when
he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent
life on other planets. Why should other planets
be any different from this one?
- Bob Monkhouse

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotes

"Spring won't let me stay in this
house any longer! I must get out
and breathe the air deeply again."
- Gustav Mahler

"The only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him."
- Henry Stimson

Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

"Life is 10 percent what you make
it, and 90 percent how you take it."
- Irving Berlin

"At 20 years of age the will reigns,
at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When the blameless and the
righteous die, the very gods
for vengeance cry."
– Vlad Taltos

Quotaria - Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who has discovered
something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not achieved by the
conscious pursuit of happiness;
it is generally the by-product
of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's
an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things
mixed up with the essential truth.
- Aldous Huxley

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring
from human stupidity, human malice and those
great motivators and justifiers of malice and
stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing
zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is
another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotaria

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if
not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball

I think we dream so we don't have to be
apart so long. If we're in each other's
dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day,
you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson

"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end
up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato

People everywhere confuse what they
read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling

Quotaria

The depressing thing about tennis
is that no matter how good I get,
I'll never be as good as a wall.
- Mitch Hedberg

You can no more win a war than
you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin

"Without the oceans there
would be no life on Earth."
- Peter Benchley

"Legislatures represent people,
not acres or trees."
- Earl Warren

I wanted to change the world. But I
have found that the only thing one
can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley

Only Irish coffee provides in a single
glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffiene, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine