“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” — Elbert Hubbard
Quotations
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“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.” — Alfred North Whitehead
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“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, ‘Is it reasonable?'” — Richard Feynman’s father
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“Life is a horizontal fall.” — Jean Cocteau
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“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France
Curiously, when France died in 1924, doctors found that his brain was two-thirds normal size. But, said surgeon Louis Guillaume, “It was the most beautiful brain one could dream of seeing. Its convolutions were marvelous.”
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“It is difficult not to write satire.” — Juvenal
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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“It will only encourage the lower classes to move about.” — The Duke of Wellington, opposing railways
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“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” — Cato the Elder
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“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.” — Hector Berlioz