Thursday 11 August 2011

Quote Worthy


Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. - Joseph Addison

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. - Joseph Addison 

Of middle age, the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. - Don Marquis

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. - Eric Hoffer

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. - Theodore H. White

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. - Ben Stein

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it. - Harry Browne

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