Favorite Quotes

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all." - Balfour

 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Shaw

 

"Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring." - Belloc

 

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'." - Beatrix Potter

 

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some." - Tarkington

 

"When a new book is published, read an old one." - Rogers

 

"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees." - Premchand

 

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." - Melville

 

"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away." - Watson

 

"You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water." - Pope Shenouda III

 

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Shelley

 

"When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch." - Barton

 

"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive." - Malebranche

 

"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both." - Edwards

 

"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me." - Teasdale

 

"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures." - Piaget

 

"If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct." - Fender

 

"I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past." - Ingersoll

 

"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." - Southey

 

"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended." - Adler