Quotes Meme

Oct 30, 2007 10:00

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
-Edith Wharton

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), on the eve of his 75th birthday
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