Quote (#493)

"To avoid situations in which you might make
mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
- Peter McWilliams

"When a thing ceases to be a
subject of controversy, it ceases
to be a subject of interest."
- William Hazlitt

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all
agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood
each other, they would never agree."
- Charles Baudelaire

When a friend asks,
there is no tomorrow.
- George Herbert

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life itself is a quotation.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

Quote (#492)

Tears are the silent
language of grief.
- Voltaire

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D Israeli (1766–1848)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It has always been the prerogative of children
and half-wits to point out that the emperor has
no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit,
and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman

"To err is human; to
forgive, infrequent."
- Franklin P. Adams

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is
the product of reason and calculation."
- Charles Baudelaire

Quotes

"Some things have to be
believed to be seen."
- Ralph Hodgson

"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."
- Charles Baudelaire

"So little done, so much to do."
- Cecil Rhodes

"At my age flowers scare me."
- George Burns

I'm too old for this shit!
- Danny Glover