Showing posts with label Leon Trotsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leon Trotsky. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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

Monday, February 16, 2009

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