Quotes

Let him that would move the
world first move himself.
- Socrates

No man really becomes a fool
until he stops asking questions.
- Charles Steinmetz

Originality does not consist in saying what
no one has ever said before, but in saying
exactly what you think yourself.
- James Stephen

We are all travelers in the wilderness
of this world, and the best we can find
in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are more ready to try the untried when what
we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that
many inventions had their birth as toys."
- Eric Hoffer

"If all else fails, immortality can always
be assured by spectacular error."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Quotes

Now we sit through Shakespeare in
order to recognize the quotations.
- Orson Welles

"Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough,
but it's worse when they are wearing dark
glasses and have streamers in their antlers
because then you know they were enjoying
themselves at a party when they were shot."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls
his business, is only to be sustained by
perpetual neglect of many other things."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Think of what would happen to us in America
if there were no humorists; life would be one
long Congressional Record."
- Tom Masson

"The trouble with our times is that the
future is not what it used to be."
- Paul Valery

"I had to live in the desert before
I could understand the full value of
grass in a green ditch."
- Ella Maillart