"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become"
Charles Du Bos
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
"Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves."
Vinet
"CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself."
Ambrose Bierce
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
Martin Mull (1943 - )
"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
Hi Polprav,
Nice to have you here - of course you can quote us, although it wasn't us who came up with these pearl's of wisdom..!