Quotes: Sigs
Francis Bacon
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa
A stumble may prevent a fall.
English Proverb
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde
I have said so poorly what I have seen so clearly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
TS Eliot
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams
While there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs
When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
Henry David Thoreau
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
John Lancaster Spalding
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
Jean Baptiste Molière
Like toilet paper you never run out of minds to wipe.
Internet
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
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