Really Cool Quotes

[right]

It takes all kinds, sir .
Martin Sheen "the badlands "

 

[Tudo]

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
Democritus
(460BC-370BC)

 

[Dime]

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Arthur Rimbaud

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca

 

[mean mr.mustard]

"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." - Mark Twain

 

[chilliwilli]

 

[Dequilo]

"History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

-- George Orwell, 1984

 

[Tudo]

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, lawyers, judges, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices" --
George Orwell

 

[Tudo]

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan Peterson

 

[right]

Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.
Ronald Reagan

 

[Tudo]

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
Calvin Coolidge
(1872-1933)

 

[Tudo]

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
Dale Carnegie

 

[JKD]

Write drunk and edit sober.
Unknown.
Falsely credited as Ernest Hemingway.

Originally from Peter De Vries’ novel “Reuben, Reuben”:

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline”

 

[right]

Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.


Tom joad
Write by
Steinbeck

 

[Dime]

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.
Mao Zedong


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain



You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
P. J. O'Rourke

 

[Tudo]

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist

 

[right]

gonzo journalism, a style of reporting that places the reporter at the centre of the story in a highly personal and participatory way. The gonzo journalist relays facts in a subjective manner and typically employs satire, hyperbole, scathing critique, and shocking descriptions as part of the story.


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[right]

To live — that means to be sick a long time”.

A problem of Socrates.
Nietzsche

 

[right]

Socrates

Crito, we owe a cock to Asklepios - Pay it and do not neglect it” [1].

 

[Dime]

The way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin

 

[Tudo]

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."
~ Mark Twain