M F K Fisher Famous Quotes
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M F K Fisher Quotations
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Arthur C Clarke
"There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
George Gordon Byron
"The past is a guide post, not a hitching post."
L Thomas Holdcroft
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Doris Lessing
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides
"If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money."
Barry Schwartz
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson