Joseph Epstein Famous Quotes
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph Epstein Quotations
"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
Jean de la Bruyere
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."
James Grover Thurber
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Arab Proverb
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bronte
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh
If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.
Hugh Elliott
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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