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“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” ? The Epic of Gilgamesh. |
"Love adds up to something. It's indestructible and immortal and carries on long after your own life is over." - Warwick Marsh on fatherhood. |
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan. |
"I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Etienne de Grellet (Quaker missionary). |
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi, American football coach. |
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones." - Umberto Eco. |
"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!" - Umberto Eco. |
"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity." - Umberto Eco. |
"You can't use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into." - Neil deGrasse Tyson. |
"I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I’ve been. I’ve learned for sure only what I don’t know – and how much I have to learn." - Anthony Bourdain. |
Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg! Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!\r\nExchange said to have occurred at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), after Lord Uxbridge lost his leg to a cannonball. |
"I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life." The Duke of Wellington when asked what he thought of the first Reformed Parliament (1832). |
The only thing I am afraid of is fear. The Duke of Wellington, referring to a cholera outbreak in London, 1831. |
"Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
"Never argue with a fool. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain. |
"Evil can be protested, it can be exposed and, if necessary, stopped by force. Evil always carries within itself the seed of self-destruction." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
"Neither protests nor the use of force have any effect, reasons fall on deaf ears, facts that contradict their prejudices are simply not accepted - at those moments the stupid person becomes critical." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
"You know what they say: Dynamite comes in small packages." - saying |
"I hate vacuum cleaners. They make the most nauseating fucking racket in the world, like a dying wildebeest being dragged up and down the corridor." - Ozzy Osbourne. |
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams |
"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue—"No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." - Eleanor Roosevelt. |
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible." - George Burns. |
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W. C. Fields. |
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." - Alex Levine. |
"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." - Herbert Henry Asquith. |
"Arguments, like men are often pretenders." - Plato. |
"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." - Samuel Butler. |
"Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument." - Desmond Tutu. |
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." - George Bernard Shaw. |
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert. |
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