I ran away with their words

I sort of have this thing for quotes. They make me happy. Beyond that, they help me avoid homework.


"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." Christopher Morley

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive." Robert Heinlein

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." Austin Phelps

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero

"Our lives improve only when we take chances--and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." Walter Anderson

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." Laurence J. Peter

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." R.D. Laing

"Oppression can only survive through silence." Carmen de Monteflores

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought by a serenity of soul. Peacei s not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)

"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), The Painted Veil, 1925

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Richard Dawkins

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actionst hat correspond with them." Abigail Adams (1744-1818), letter to John Adams, 1774