A quotes post
Yes yes I know I still need to make a college post, and it's getting worse and worse as I keep procrastinating. But my attention span is too short for now.
So, to appease everyone...
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
. . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till
the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Take this sorrow to thy heart, and make it a part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
-
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Hyperion"
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-
Marcel Duchamp
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art.
-
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
-
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
-
Michaelangelo
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
-
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-
Michelangelo
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.
-
Henry Ward Beecher
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
-
André Malraux
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
-
Ned Rorem
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
-
Paul Valery
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
-
Dennis Roch
A writer doesn't die of heart failure, but of typographical errors.
-
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The physicist's greatest tool is his waste basket.
- Albert Einstein,
If my theory of relativity is proven succesful, Germany will claim me as German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. If my theory should
prove to be untrue, then France will say that I am a German, and Germany will say that I am a Jew.
- Albert Einstein, In
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein, In
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one
- Albert Einstein, In
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- Life is a mystery, not a problem to be solved
- Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
-
- -
- Dereke Bruce
- The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-
- -
- Gloria Leonard
- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.
-
- -
- Henny Youngman
- The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army
- knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back
- of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.'
-
- -
- Jerry Seinfeld
- When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
-
- -
- Mae West (1892-1980)
- Only two things in life are certain, death and that twinkies will out last you.
-
- -
- Mark Franklin
- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-
- -
- Oscar Wilde
- Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-
- -
- Richard Feynman
- A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fuckin' cross? It's kind of like going up
- to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on."
-
- -
- Bill Hicks
- Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
-
- -
- Emo Philips
- The planet is fine, the people are fucked.
-
- -
- George Carlin
- Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-
- -
- James Rodges, Murderer, On His Final Request Before The Firing Squad
- How come on the condom dispensers it has a little picture of birds flying over a pretty mountain. They use sex to sell everything else... why don't they
- use sex to sell condoms?
-
- -
- Jeff Carnegie
- How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
-
- -
- Lewis B. Frumkes (Book Title)
- I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-
- -
- Solomon Short
- I like to tell people I have the heart of a small boy. Then I say it's in a jar on my desk.
-
- -
- Stephen King
- The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
-
- -
- Shirley Maclaine
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
-
- -
- Robin Williams
- "When I was growing up, we had a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
-
- -
- Steven Wright
- A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
-
- -
- Steven Wright
- One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to all the adults and said, "Drink this, it'll make you taller, it's magic."
- And they all drank it and said, how cute, how wierd. And then I snuck off into the room where they kept all the coats and hemmed everyone's sleeves an
- inch shorter.
-
- -
- Steven Wright (Comics Come Home #1)
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Never let school interfere with your education.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- The clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
- the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way
-
- -
- 20th Century American Writer Christopher Morley
- "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
-
- -
- - Winnie The Pooh
- Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
-
- -
- C.S. Lewis
- He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
-
- -
- C.S. Lewis
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge
-
Confucious
Life is like playing the violin solo inpublic and learning the instument as you go.
-
Edward Geroge Bulwer-Lytton
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-
George Benard Shaw
I went into the woods for I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rout all that was not life,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-
Henry David Thoreau
For all the sad things of tongue or pen, the worst are these,"it might have been."
-
John Greenleaf Whittier
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be
alive is to be vulnerable.
-
Madeleine L'Engle
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
-
Marcus Aurelius
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is
a new day; You shall begin it serenely and With too high a spirit to be encumbered With your old nonsense
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know you have enough is to be rich.
-
Tao
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily,
or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out
and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who
don't understand."
-
The Velveteen Rabbit
This convict, this desperate man, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me beneath his feet, and could have avenged himself, and who
ought to have done so, as well as for his revenge as for his security, in granting me life, in sparing me, what has he done? His duty? No. Something more.
And I, in sparing him in my turn, what have I done? My duty? No. Something more. There is then something more than duty.
-
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"
The world is conspiring in your favor.
(written in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind
- Dr. Suess, In
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, In
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
- Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.
- Oscar Wilde
- We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Death/Last Words
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
- "I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS", he said eventually, "CATS
- ARE NICE."
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Many an ancient lord's last words have been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh."
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Education is a sexual disease, IT makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Eric"
- Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!"
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is
- waiting for it.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
- People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called 'living'.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "The Last Continent"
- To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
-
- - William Blake, In
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen,
- and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am all ready for defending my yard with a shovel, fear me!
Shinju
Enjoy them! And look for that post...sometime in the future.
TTFN
So, to appease everyone...
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
. . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till
the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Take this sorrow to thy heart, and make it a part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
-
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Hyperion"
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-
Marcel Duchamp
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art.
-
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
-
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
-
Michaelangelo
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
-
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-
Michelangelo
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.
-
Henry Ward Beecher
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
-
André Malraux
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
-
Ned Rorem
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
-
Paul Valery
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
-
Dennis Roch
A writer doesn't die of heart failure, but of typographical errors.
-
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The physicist's greatest tool is his waste basket.
- Albert Einstein,
If my theory of relativity is proven succesful, Germany will claim me as German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. If my theory should
prove to be untrue, then France will say that I am a German, and Germany will say that I am a Jew.
- Albert Einstein, In
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein, In
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one
- Albert Einstein, In
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- Life is a mystery, not a problem to be solved
- Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
-
- - Albert Einstein, In
- In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
-
- -
- Dereke Bruce
- The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-
- -
- Gloria Leonard
- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.
-
- -
- Henny Youngman
- The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army
- knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back
- of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.'
-
- -
- Jerry Seinfeld
- When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
-
- -
- Mae West (1892-1980)
- Only two things in life are certain, death and that twinkies will out last you.
-
- -
- Mark Franklin
- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-
- -
- Oscar Wilde
- Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-
- -
- Richard Feynman
- A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fuckin' cross? It's kind of like going up
- to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on."
-
- -
- Bill Hicks
- Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
-
- -
- Emo Philips
- The planet is fine, the people are fucked.
-
- -
- George Carlin
- Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-
- -
- James Rodges, Murderer, On His Final Request Before The Firing Squad
- How come on the condom dispensers it has a little picture of birds flying over a pretty mountain. They use sex to sell everything else... why don't they
- use sex to sell condoms?
-
- -
- Jeff Carnegie
- How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
-
- -
- Lewis B. Frumkes (Book Title)
- I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-
- -
- Solomon Short
- I like to tell people I have the heart of a small boy. Then I say it's in a jar on my desk.
-
- -
- Stephen King
- The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
-
- -
- Shirley Maclaine
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
-
- -
- Robin Williams
- "When I was growing up, we had a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
-
- -
- Steven Wright
- A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
-
- -
- Steven Wright
- One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to all the adults and said, "Drink this, it'll make you taller, it's magic."
- And they all drank it and said, how cute, how wierd. And then I snuck off into the room where they kept all the coats and hemmed everyone's sleeves an
- inch shorter.
-
- -
- Steven Wright (Comics Come Home #1)
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Never let school interfere with your education.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- The clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
- the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.
-
- - Mark Twain, In
- There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way
-
- -
- 20th Century American Writer Christopher Morley
- "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
-
- -
- - Winnie The Pooh
- Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
-
- -
- C.S. Lewis
- He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
-
- -
- C.S. Lewis
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge
-
Confucious
Life is like playing the violin solo inpublic and learning the instument as you go.
-
Edward Geroge Bulwer-Lytton
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-
George Benard Shaw
I went into the woods for I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rout all that was not life,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-
Henry David Thoreau
For all the sad things of tongue or pen, the worst are these,"it might have been."
-
John Greenleaf Whittier
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be
alive is to be vulnerable.
-
Madeleine L'Engle
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
-
Marcus Aurelius
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is
a new day; You shall begin it serenely and With too high a spirit to be encumbered With your old nonsense
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know you have enough is to be rich.
-
Tao
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily,
or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out
and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who
don't understand."
-
The Velveteen Rabbit
This convict, this desperate man, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me beneath his feet, and could have avenged himself, and who
ought to have done so, as well as for his revenge as for his security, in granting me life, in sparing me, what has he done? His duty? No. Something more.
And I, in sparing him in my turn, what have I done? My duty? No. Something more. There is then something more than duty.
-
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"
The world is conspiring in your favor.
(written in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind
- Dr. Suess, In
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, In
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-
- - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
- Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.
- Oscar Wilde
- We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, In
- Death/Last Words
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-
- - Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
- "I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS", he said eventually, "CATS
- ARE NICE."
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Many an ancient lord's last words have been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh."
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Education is a sexual disease, IT makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, In
- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Eric"
- Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!"
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is
- waiting for it.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
- People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called 'living'.
-
- - Terry Pratchett, "The Last Continent"
- To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
-
- - William Blake, In
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen,
- and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am all ready for defending my yard with a shovel, fear me!
Shinju
Enjoy them! And look for that post...sometime in the future.
TTFN