Tuesday 19 February 2013

Quote Worthy


If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. - Victor Hugo

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. - Gerald Brenan

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume its addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte Debussy-Rabutin

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein 

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper

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