Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Henry Lawson

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Henry Lawson

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Henry Lawson

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Henri Barbusse

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavor to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Cat Stevens

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

George Eliot

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

George Eliot

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

George Eliot

History repeats itself.

Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Leave no stone unturned.

Errol Flynn

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Errol Flynn

I want faith; but I am faithless

Errol Flynn

Has every oyster a different taste?

Errol Flynn

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Errol Flynn

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Errol Flynn

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

Errol Flynn

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Errol Flynn

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

Errol Flynn

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Errol Flynn

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Errol Flynn

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Errol Flynn

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

Errol Flynn

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Mike Rowe

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

Frank Herbert

I am not the river I am the net.

Frank Herbert

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

George Henry Lewes

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Herbert

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.