Quotes
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested
solely
on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing
didn't require any. Russell Baker
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause while the mature man
wants to live humbly for one.
The foolish neither forgive nor forget. The naive forgive and forget.
The wise forgive but do not forget.
... faultless inspite of all her faults ... (from Emma, Jane Austen)
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
(Joseph Joubert)
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
(John Patrick)
But I was not entirely overwhelmed with excitement. I had achieved something
so desirable and so untouchable for everyone else around me that I felt
guilty toward my friends. (Jung Chang, Wild Swans)
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take
you in. (Voyager, D.Gabaldon)
It's best we give him freedom while he still thinks its ours to give.
(Voyager, D.Gabaldon)
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner,
you have learned how to live. (Lin Yutang)
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose (Janice Joplin)
You are all a lost generation! (Gertrude
Stein)
sein langwieriger Versuch zu erklären, was der Unterschied ist zwischen
Sowjetunion und Sozialismus. (Max Frisch, Montauk)
Ich mag Pernod nicht, aber ich mag ihn gern trinken. (Simone de Beauvoir,
Sie kam und blieb)