Irwin Shaw Famous Quotes
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
Irwin Shaw Quotations
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Charles Robert Darwin
"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it."
Jules Renard
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
William Shakespeare
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
"Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are."
Assyrian Proverb
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet.
Unknown
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.
William Ashley
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts."
Jean Jacques Rousseau