Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold that no fire can ever
warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head
were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is
there any other way.
- Emily Dickinson
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent,
a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse,
as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of
thine own were. Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in
Mankinde. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls
for thee.
- John Donne
Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life,
and the neglected opportunity.
- Arabian Proverb
The grand essentials in this life are something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.
- Addison
It is the peculiar qualitty of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to
forget his own.
- Cicero
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is to you.
- Emerson
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Everything has its beauty
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk
less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying
life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows -- he breathes but does not
live.
- Sanskrit Proverb
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it
returns the greeting.
- Thackeray
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When the ship lifts, all bills are paid. No regrets.
- Lazarus Long
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Le sens commun est le genie de l'humanite.
Vie: Excellente source de angst.
Angst: Excellente source d'inspiration.
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Anarchy means having to put up with things that really piss you off.
Chastity... the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- Aldous Huxley
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire