quotes

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

- Hoagland, Edward

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

- Catherine II of Russia

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

- Clare Booth Luce

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

- Wilde, Oscar

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

- Woody Allen

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

- Hubbard, Elbert

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

- Krishnamurti

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

- Caesar, Sid

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

- Naisbitt, John

10.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

- Britney Spears

11.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

- Gourmont, Remy De

12.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

- Cato the Elder

13.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

14.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

- FeNelon, Francois

15.

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

- Buffett, Warren

17.

IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump (Nature, they said, had taken a freak) That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak. So modest a man in all Ispahan, Over and over again they swore -- So humble and meek, you would vainly seek; None ever was found before. Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret. There wasn't a man in all Ispahan Prouder, or louder in praise of his chump: With a tireless tongue and a brazen lung He bragged of that beautiful bump Till the Shah in a rage sent a trusty page Bearing a sack and a bow-string too, And that gentle child explained as he smiled: "A little present for you." The saddest man in all Ispahan, Sniffed at the gift, yet accepted the same. "If I'd lived," said he, "my humility Had given me deathless fame!" Sukker Uffro

- Ambrose Bierce

18.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

- Joan Rivers

19.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

20.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

- Bataille, Georges