Virginia Famous Quotes
"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street."
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."
"The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever."
"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia Quotations
"Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear."
W Allingham
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
American Proverb
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Kilgore Trout
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
John Keats
"I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride."
Paul Wiener
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift