Tom Robbins Famous Quotes
"There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for."
"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
Tom Robbins Quotations
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
Frank Deford
"...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way."
Imgard Schloegl
"They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
Sallust
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
"There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
Sam Walton
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
Albert Schweitzer
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Hutchins