Gene Wolfe Famous Quotes
"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
Gene Wolfe Quotations
"Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others."
M Scott Peck
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
Jean Kerr
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All's fair in love and war.
Francis Edwards
"Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they"
John Keats
"The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure."
Chilo
Time is the image of eternity.
Laertius Diogenes
"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country."
Eugene McCarthy
"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer."
Amanda Grier
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop