
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variant: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: The Complete Essays
Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper<!-- p. 42 -->
Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations