Samuel Beckett Famous Quotes
"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
"Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly."
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett Quotations
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."
Eric Lustbader
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Ralph W Sockman
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
Henry David Thoreau
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Albert Einstein
"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Edward Everett Hale
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
Barbara Schapiro
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche