Monday, October 10, 2005

Random Quotes
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)