<p>What are your favorite quotations?
Here is ONE of my favorites...</p>
<p>"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-Francis Bacon</p>
<p>It is our actions, far from our choices, that make us who we are.-Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. That might be a bit off. It’s from memory.</p>
<p>"Voil</p>
<p>All of them?</p>
<p>“‘Ah, how can we bear it?’
‘Bear what, my dear?’
‘This, for so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?’
‘We can be quiet together and pretend, since it is only the beginning, that we have all the time in the world.’
‘And every day we shall have less, and then none!’
‘Would you rather therefore, have had nothing at all?’
‘No, this is where I have been coming to, since my time began, and when I go from here, this will be the midpoint, to which everything before ran and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and all those other times are running elsewhere.’”
-Possession, by A.S. Byatt</p>
<p>“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot find the falconer
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
-The Second Coming, by W.B. Yeats</p>
<p>“‘How all the Young things wear their hearts on their sleeves!’”</p>
<p>“‘Sonya! what is the matter? how can you?’ said Nikolay, running up to her.
‘Nothing, nothing, leave me alone!’ Sonya was sobbing.
‘No, I know what it is.’
‘Very well, you do, so much the better then, and you can go back to her.’
‘So-o-onya! one word! How can you torture me and yourself for a mere facy?’ said Nikolay, taking her hand. Sonya did not pull her hand away, and left off crying.
[…]
‘Sonya! I care for nothing in the whole world! You’re everything to me,’ said Nikolay. ‘I’ll prove it to you.’
‘I don’t like you to talk like that.’
‘Well, I won’t then; come, forgive me, Sonya.’ He drew her to him and kissed her”</p>
<p>“‘For ever?’ said the little girl '‘Till death?’”</p>
<p>“'How light it is, Nikolenka.”</p>
<p>“‘Sonya! . . . Nikolenka!’”</p>
<p>“'Do you know I think that ones goes on remembering and remembering; one remembers ‘till one recalls what happened before one was in this world. . . .’
‘That’s metempsychosis,’ said Sonya, who had been good at lessons.”
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy </p>
<p>“Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its on way.” </p>
<p>“Death” (Chapter title) </p>
<p>“w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t” (When you told me it could never be, did that mean never, or then?)
-Anna Karenina, Tolstoy</p>
<p>“And then arise the obdurate facts of rancorous tribalism to destroy the seduction.”
-Ugly Thorny Tings, October 19, 2006, Joseph Epstein</p>
<p>“The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of.”
-Blaise Pascal</p>
<p>"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
- JG Whittier</p>
<p>“O me! for why is all around us here
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would,
Till the High God behold it from beyond,
And enter it, and make it beautiful ?
Or else as if the world were wholly fair,
But that these eyes of men are dense and dim,
And have not power to see it as it is.”
-Idylls of the King, Tennyson</p>
<p>The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family.
-Sir William Jones</p>
<p>“My wife is an untwinkling star”
-Nijinsky</p>
<p>“We’re allways sixteen”
- Only Revolutions, Mark Z. Danielewski</p>
<p>Woohoo Tolstoy!</p>
<p>“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.” – Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce</p>
<p>"—We are a generous people but we must also be just.</p>
<p>—I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy." – Ulysses by James Joyce.</p>
<p>“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” – also from Ulysses</p>
<p>“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” – Henry Adams, from The Education of Henry Adams</p>
<p>I <3 James Joyce.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as free lunch</p>
<p>From my Economics book by McConnell and Bruce, might be a little off because I don’t have the book in front of me. Pretty sure they were not the first to say it.</p>
<p>“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” -HOWL</p>
<p>He who laughs most, learns best. - John Cleese
You look just like you! - Eric Idle </p>
<p>Haha. Monty Python <3</p>
<p>There are no stupid questions.
There are just stupid ppl who ask the questions.</p>
<p>Thanks for making everyone feel good about themselves Calc BC teacher <3</p>
<p>“If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.”
- Kingsley Amis</p>
<p>"I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don’t want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.
If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.”
- Kingsley Amis</p>
<p>Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying. He is purported to have said,</p>
<p>“Tell her to wait a moment till I’m done.”</p>
<p>“**** ** ******”</p>
<p>“Remember Remember the Fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.”
I don’t know who said it first but I heard it first on V for Vendetta</p>
<p>“Shorn by hope and by hope betrayed
Yet hope uplifted and through hope is saved”
Don’t know who said that one either</p>
<p>“It doesn’t matter how you get there as long as you get there”
-Me</p>
<p>“bump, bump, no bump, 3 vertical bumps, bump.”
-Helen Keller</p>
<p>“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine”</p>