“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
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“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
Hannah Arendt book The Human Condition
The Human Condition (1958).
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker
Source: Lead the Field
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) philosopher
Resources of Hope (published posthumously in 1989), p. 118
“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.”
Conan O'Brien (1963) American television show host and comedian
“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Variant: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book III, Chapter III
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
Mary Beard book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim
Source: Lucky Jim (1954)