Norman Juster Famous Quotes
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juster Quotations
"It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time."
Benjamin Franklin
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu
"... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
George Santayana
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
Herschel Walker
"What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do."
Josh Billings
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity."
Les Claypool
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JeanPaul Sartre
One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes.
Maitri Upanishads
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
Saint Augustine