The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Baudrillard, Jean
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
- Proverb, Hungarian
- Proverb, Hungarian
Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
- Harte, Bret
- Harte, Bret
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Darwin, Charles R.
- Darwin, Charles R.
Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.
- Thornley, Bonnie Jean
- Thornley, Bonnie Jean
Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.
- Frederick Buechner
- Frederick Buechner
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas H. Huxley
- Thomas H. Huxley
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
- Matt Groening
- Matt Groening
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
- Golding, William
- Golding, William
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
- Winchell, Walter
- Winchell, Walter
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.
- Tor N°rretranders
- Tor N°rretranders
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test.
- Oswald Wyler
- Oswald Wyler
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
- Paul, Jean
- Paul, Jean
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilde, Oscar
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
- Arthur Wing Pinero
- Arthur Wing Pinero
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