Showing posts with label Edward Young. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Young. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2009

Quotaria

"I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes
up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you
don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'"
- Ellen DeGeneres

"I despise the pleasure of
pleasing people that I despise."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


"Take care of the luxuries and the
necessities will take care of themselves."
- Dorothy Parker

"Computers are useless. They
can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso


"Reality is the leading cause of stress
amongst those in touch with it."
- Jane Wagner


"Read nature; nature is
a friend to truth."
- Edward Young

Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotaria

"Those who build beneath
the stars build too low."
- Edward Young

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for
which no preparation is thought necessary."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every increased possession
loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness;
it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of
unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most
certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
- Michel Foucault

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Quotes

"Money can't buy love, but it improves
your bargaining position."
- Christopher Marlowe

"To the artist there is never
anything ugly in nature."
- Auguste Rodin


"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote."
- Edward Young

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages
will be thought of as including our own."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"People who have what they want are fond
of telling people who haven't what they
want that they really don't want it."
- Ogden Nash

"Laugh and the world laughs with
you, snore and you sleep alone."
- Anthony Burgess