Thomas Herrick Famous Quotes
"To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd."
Thomas Herrick Quotations
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
Paul Valery
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Eckhart Tolle
"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."
Tennessee Williams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
"No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think."
Penelope Fitzgerald
"Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences."
Unknown
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B B King
"If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people."
Simeon Strunsky
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
William Feather