Quote of the day

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that warns us somebody may be looking.
-H L Menken

I do not know which makes a man more conservative- to know nothing but the present,
or nothing but the past.
-John Maynard Keynes

If you haven't anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit by me.
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you didn't drink, how would your friends know you loved them at 2:am?
-Anonymous
 
A genius! For thirty-seven years I've practiced fourteen hours a day,
and now they call me a genius.
-Pablo Sarasate

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-Jonathan Swift

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will
be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will
come from either of those excesses.
-Aristotle
 
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man
in it can count on steady work- the night watchman.
-Tallulah Bankhead

The thought of suicide is a great comfort; with it a calm passage
is to be made across many a bad night.
-Nietzsche

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion;
it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
-T S Eliot
 
He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
-Samuel Johnson

The Arab who builds himself a hut out of the marble fragments of a temple in Palmyra is
more philosophical than all the curators of the museums in London, Munich or Paris.
-Anatole France

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Carl Jung
 
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Rimbaud
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
― Rimbaud

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
 
Second-hand quote
Somewhere I read that Andy Warhol said that the outtakes of most film would
be more interesting than what is put in the picture. II could not find the actual quote,
but here it is re-quoted by Gene Siskel.

 
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
- Leland Stanford

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
Joseph Conrad

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we
hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
-MLK

This isn't going to be a good country for any of us to live in until it's a good country for all of us to live in.
- Richard Milhous Nixon

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
-William Shakespeare

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
G B Shaw
 
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Some quotes by Angela Carter,
an author with a surreal inclination.

Cities have sexes: London is an man, Paris is a woman, and
New York a well-adjusted transexual.
-AC

There was a house we all had in common and it was called
the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
-AC

I am entirely alone and my shadow fills the universe.
-AC

Love is desire sustained by unfulfillment.
-AC

Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
anything you read, all your experiences of the world. You bring your
history and you read it in your own terms.
-AC
 
Some Bronte quotes

I would always rather be happy than dignified.
-Charlotte Bronte

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
-Emily Bronte

Although I maintain that if she were more perfect,
she would be less interesting.
-Anne Bronte

In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this.
-Branwell Bronte
 
To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology,
it is necessary to understand and realize the intimate relationship and identity
of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.
-Paracelsus (alchemist/physician 1493-1541)
 
^ 'Paracelcus" aka Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim(!) is one the most fascinating personalities in the history of mankind! It's extremely rare that a person can be both ridiculous (and bombastic!) fool and groundbreaking scientist at the same time!

One of my top ten favorite quotes that made laugh again today is the following, which is claimed to be by Oscar Wilde, but that is disputed.

'Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.'
 
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
-Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness...
-MW

The sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
-MW
 

Coco Chanel​


Some quotes I copied from Coco Chanel

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel
 
Odds and ends, this and that

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana

The living are the dead on holiday.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Our imagination flies- we are its shadow on the earth.
-Vladimir Nabokov

I am a cage in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
 
Some Orson Welles quotes

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I passionately hate the idea of being "with it", I think an artist has always to be out of step
with his times.

If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story.
 
Voltaire

Once the people begin to reason,
all is lost.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a
tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

All of our ancient history, as one of our
wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.
 
Life, the permission to know death.
-Djuna Barnes

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be
an even greater one.
-Vladimir Nabokov

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper
to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
T. E. Lawrence
 
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Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.
Murray Gell-Mann

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simple way;
The aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The
two are incompatable.
-Paul Diriac

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to
misunderstand at a deeper level.
-Wolfgang Pauli
 
"I keep six honest serving-men: / [They taught me all I knew] / Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who."

― Rudyard Kipling
 
Richard Brautigan quotes

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word "mayonaise".

Karma repair kit items 1-4
1. Get enough foot to eat, and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.
3. Reduce intelectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the
silence of yourself, and listen to it.
4.
 
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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings
 
Rousseau-
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I would rather be a man pf paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness.

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
 
These are quotes I copied from somewhere on the internet-
Quotes from Marilyn Vos Savant, a real person who is smart and
more than that-


“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant

“At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant
 
Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation
for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
 
Quotes about thinking

Most of one's life... is one prolonged effort to
prevent oneself thinking.
-Aldous Huxley

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should
have to be able to think both sides of this limit.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

My thought is me: that is why I can't stop. I exist
by what I think...
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Many people would sooner die than think.
In fact they do.
-Bertrand Russell

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
-Jean Cocteau
 
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
― Thomas Mann


“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
― Anthony Liccione


“Irony is wasted on the stupid”
― Oscar Wilde
 
Three or four Saki Quotes
(H H Munnro)

I believe I take precidence, he said coldly: you are merely the club Bore:
I am the club Liar.

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
(referring to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism
that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

His socks comelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
 
Kafka quotes
Kafka quotes
Kafka quotes

I am a cage in search of a bird.

A first sigh of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die,

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not fully desired

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
 
''No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger — something better, pushing right back.''

— Albert Camus
 
“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”
― Billie Jean King

“Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing.”
― C. Terry Warner

“I have no sense of humor about losing”
― Rafael Nadal
 
“Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.”

“Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!”

-Donald Trump
 
Expecting consistency from Trump, however, is a bit like expecting the weather to be eternally agreeable.

Airspun said:
“Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.”

“Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!”

-Donald Trump
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He has never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.
-William Faulkner, Referring to Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
-Ernest Hemingway, referring to William Faulkner

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it
without shyness.
-Cyril Connolly

All styles are good except the tiresome sort.
-Voltaire

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
-Oscar Wilde
 
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