Quotes (#475)

I praise loudly;
I blame softly.
- Catherine II

What a day may bring,
a day may take away.
- Thomas Fuller

"A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin."
- H. L. Mencken

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Treat all disasters as if they
were trivialities but never treat
a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp

Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving

Quotes

Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream that never were and ask why not.
- G.B. Shaw

Thinking will not overcome
fear, but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

When you can't have what you want, it's
time to start wanting what you have.
- Kathleen A. Sutton

True friendship can afford true
knowledge. It does not depend
on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

Education has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan

Well-timed silence hath
more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper

Quotes

"There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
- W. Somerset Maugham

"I've done the calculation and your
chances of winning the lottery are
identical whether you play or not."
- Fran Lebowitz

"An economist is a man who states the
obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
- Alfred A. Knopf

"That's the secret to life...
replace one worry with another...."
- Charles M. Schulz

"Old age is the most unexpected of
things that can happen to a man."
- Leon Trotsky

"A man is rich in proportion to the number
of things he can afford to let alone."
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Quotaria

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson

The mediocre teacher tells,
the good teacher explains,
the superior teacher demonstrates,
the great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when
for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be
stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The
longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man is the only animal that laughs
and weeps, for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference
between what things are and what
they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt

"Reason can answer questions, but
imagination has to ask them."
- Ralph Gerard

Quotes - Henry David Thoreau

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came
to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which
distract our attention from serious things. They
are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

Goodness is the only investment that never fails
- Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it."
- Henry David Thoreau

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which
distract our attention from serious things. They
are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

Quotaria

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly
perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings?
Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
- Paul Gauguin

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are
dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
- James Russell Lowell

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because
out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
- Leon Trotsky

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy
of being called an idea at all.
- Don Marquis

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of
a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Eric Hoffer

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay
waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau