Recommended quotes page 11
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American television evangelist
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques
Act IV, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variant: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
“The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation”
Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews
Author's Preface
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“They are the affectation of affectation.”
Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews
Book III, Ch. 3
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist