Quotations Set 23

1. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955)

2. The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. - Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973)

3. Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. - Eric Bentley, British-born American author and educator

4. Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. - John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)

5. Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

6. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. - Anonymous

7. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

8. I'm not young enough to know everything. - Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish dramatist-author (1860-1937)

9. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. - Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

10. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

11. If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. - Jewish Proverb

12. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. - Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

13. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997)

14. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers - or both." - Elizabeth Charles, British writer (1828-1896).

15. The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin, American author (1924-1987).

16. To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard, American author and publisher (1856-1915).

17. If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. - William Dean Howells, American author (1837-1920).

18. Psychology, which explains everything,
    Explains nothing,
    And we are still in doubt."
    - Marianne Moore, American poet (1887-1972).

19. Beware the fury of the patient man. - John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700).

20. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862).

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