Jorge Luis Borges Famous Quotes
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
Life itself is a quotation.
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite."
Jorge Luis Borges Quotations
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
Horace
"If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow."
Ruth Gordon
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Baltasar Gracian
"All things change, nothing perishes."
Ovid
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick