Favorite quotes

Feb 10, 2008

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment" - Mohandas/Mahatma Gandhi


Oscar Wilde

"There is no sin except stupidity..."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

"A kiss may ruin a human life."

"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."

"Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."



William Shakespeare

"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe."

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."