12 favorite quotes
Being somewhat bored today I decided to list a few of my favorite, brief, quotes. I'll make no pretension about having read or studied most of these authors, except for a bit Bertrand Russell and quite a bit of Margaret Laurence. In fact I snatched many of these from the game Civilization IV. Still, I like them, how so much meaning can be packed into just a few words. And I know the last quoter personally. ;)
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
-- Susan B Anthony
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
-- Xenocrates
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
-- Quentin Crisp
"The wisest men follow their own direction."
- Euripides
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."
- Publius Syrius
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
- Ali ibn Abi-Talib
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
-- Woody Allen
"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."
-- Margaret Laurence
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
-- Bertrand Russell
"If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are -- like fishes not meant to swim."
-- Cyril Connolly
"I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn."
-- Tim Murphy
What are some of your favorite quotes?
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
-- Susan B Anthony
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
-- Xenocrates
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
-- Quentin Crisp
"The wisest men follow their own direction."
- Euripides
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."
- Publius Syrius
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
- Ali ibn Abi-Talib
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
-- Woody Allen
"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."
-- Margaret Laurence
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
-- Bertrand Russell
"If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are -- like fishes not meant to swim."
-- Cyril Connolly
"I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn."
-- Tim Murphy
What are some of your favorite quotes?