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Quotes One
"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You see things and say, ‘why?’ but I dream things that never were and say, ‘why not?’ " –George Bernard Shaw
"In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin." –James Russell Lowell
"You must lose a fly to catch a trout." –George Herbert
"A cripple taught me how to dance, A blind man taught me how to see. A fallen angel taught me how to fly, and a prisoner taught me to be free." –Simple Image
"The only paradise is the paradise we’ve lost." –Proust
"To err is human . . . to forgive is not our policy." --The MIT assassin’s guild
"We were once so close to heaven, Peter came out and gave us medals, and said we were the nicest of the Damned." –They Might Be Giants "Road movie to Berlin" Flood
"Your world is dying, a shell of existence whose time has come to end. I am here to show you a rebirth, an evolution of being. The fact that millions shall die is of no consequence." –Tiamat, Dark Glory
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." –Sir Winston Churchill
"History is a set of lies agreed upon." –Napoleon
"Come to the edge," he said. They said "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came, he pushed them . . . And they flew. –Guillaume Apollinaire
"To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from." –Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Is arrogance bad if it's used for good?" –Smith Benjamin
"Behind every great fortune is a crime." –Balzac
"Intelligence is very much a two edged sword, Captain–Doctor. It is only useful up to a point. It interferes with the business of living." –The Swarm
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself in not sinful–just stupid.)" –Robert A. Heinlein
"The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meanings . . . However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." –Stanley Kubrick
"The Devil’s most devilish when respectable." –Elizabeth Barret Browning
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." –John Morly
"There is plenty of hope in the world, but not for us." –Franz Kafka
"Drink and be merry, for our time is short, and death lasts forever." –Amphis Fragment, 330 B.C.
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." –Alfred North Whitehead
"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame." –Mahatma Gandhi
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on the wings of misery and travail." –Theodore Dreiser
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." –Amy Lowell
"The artist must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One puts into one’s art what one has not been capable of putting into one’s existence. It is because he is unhappy that God created the world." –Henri de Montherlant
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or fiend, by prayer or by wine." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I owe to the middle ages the two worst inventions of humanity–gunpowder and romantic love." –André Maurois
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." --André Gide
"My center is giving way, my right is retreating; situation excellent. I shall attack. " --Marshal Ferdinand Foch
"My interest is in the future because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there." –C.F. Keetering
"There’s more to life than increasing its speed." –Gandhi
"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. " --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes a crumb falls from the tables of joy. Sometimes a bone is flung. To some people love is given, too others only heaven. –Langston Hughes
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. " --Robert Frost
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, When they think that their children are naive. " --Ogden Nash
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. " --Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read." – Groucho Marx
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." –Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (1975)
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." –Mother Terisa
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Copyright © 2002 by Peter Holzer. All rights reserved.
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