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Cool
Quotes Vol.1
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- Nothing
is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking
about.~Sam
Ewing.
- If it
were
not for labour, men
could neither eat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so
soundly,
nor be so healthful, so useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor so
untempted.~Jeremy Taylor (the 17th-century English bishop).
- If you
want the world to beat
a path to your door, just try to take a nap on a Saturday
afternoon.~Sam
Ewing in Mature Living.
- No day
in
which you learn something
is a complete loss. ~David Eddings.
- To
much
agreement kills a chat.
~Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice).
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- If
silence
is golden, then speech
is platinum. It spreads wisdom, dispels ignorance, ventilates
grievances,
stimulates curiosity, lightens the spirits and lessens the fundamental
loneliness of the soul. ~Jan Struther.
- There
are
three ways to get
something done; Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children
to do it. ~Monta Crane.
- When
the
search for truth is
confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced
to
the quest for power. ~Alston Chase.
- Let
children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains
and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that
death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~John Muir.
- Security
is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience
it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~Helen Keller.
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