Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?ÔÇØ
Voltaire

ÔÇ£Let us read & let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers & to the sound of trumpets.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

ÔÇ£Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

[zqwerty]

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[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Love truth but pardon error.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

ÔÇ£I don't know where I am going but I am on my way.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

ÔÇ£Doubt is an uncomfortable cindition but certainty is a ridiculous one.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.ÔÇØ (Voltaire on his death bed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce satan.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

ÔÇ£Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.ÔÇØ
T.S. Eliot

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The difference between genius & stupidity is that genius has its limits.ÔÇØ
Albert Einstein

ÔÇ£You have your way & I have mine. As for the right way & the only way,it does not exist.ÔÇØ
Friedrech Nietzsche

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.ÔÇØ
Anais Nin

ÔÇ£Children are made readers in the lap of their parents.ÔÇØ
Emilie Bunchwald

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£When war breaks out & people say:'It won't last, it's too stupid'. And war is certainly stupid, but that doesn't prevent it from lasting.ÔÇØ
Albert Camus

ÔÇ£Politics is the only profession where you can lie, cheat & steal & still be respected.ÔÇØ
Mark Twain

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Death is the physician of the poor.ÔÇØ
Irish saying

ÔÇ£A library is not a luxury but one of the neccesities of life.ÔÇØ
Henry Ward Beecher

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

ÔÇ£To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.ÔÇØ
Kurt Vonnegut

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We're not going to change women to fit the world.We're going to change the world to fit women.ÔÇØ
Gloria Steinem

ÔÇ£In a librarywe are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper & leathern boxes.ÔÇØ
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A well read woman is a dangerous creature.ÔÇØ
Lisa Kleypas

ÔÇ£Think of those rivers of blood spilled by all those generals & emperors so that, in glory & triumph, they could become momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. Its just been too intelligent to come here.ÔÇØ
Arthur C Clarke


ÔÇ£Art should comfort the disturbed & disturb the comfortable.ÔÇØ
Banksy

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque & insulting.It is like advising a man who is starv\ing to eat less.ÔÇØ
Oscar Wilde

ÔÇ£Everyone thinks they have the best dog.And none of them are wrong.ÔÇØ
W.R. Purche

[zqwerty]

Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsu...n_t_lewis/

[Lilith7]

Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsu...n_t_lewis/

That's an interesting one, cheers for posting it.

[zqwerty]

'Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.' - Denis Diderot

https://www.google.com/search?client=fir...is+Diderot

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£When I read great literature, great drama, speeches or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings & thoughts through language.ÔÇØ
James Earl Jones

ÔÇ£The medicine of the future will be music & sound.ÔÇØ
Edgar Cayce

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting our high technology from weaponry to livingry.ÔÇØ
Buckminster Fuller

ÔÇ£No matter how little money & how few possessions you own, owning a dog makes you rich.ÔÇØ
Louis Sabin