"wisdom is in knowing what needs to be done next. virtue is in doing it."
- unknown.
no escaping the truth. no brushing aside what needs to be done. if you know it, you can't just go on pretending like you don't.
my first quote of the day....
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my first quote of the day....
"YOUR way is your only way." - jack kerouac
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in my old journal from college
I had these quotes littering the inside cover:
"The best sauce for food is hunger." - Socrates
"Half of art is knowing when to stop." - Radford
"The only thing the world will never have enough of is exaggerration." - Dali
"I never think of the future, it comes soon enough." -Einstein
"Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited." - Bierce
"Art lies in concealing art." -Ovid
"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." - Twain
"Theory - When you have ideas.
Ideology - When ideas have you" - (not sure who... Bierce?)
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a pray, where wealth accumulates and men decay." - Goldsmith.
"National Socialism does not harbour the slightest aggressive intent toward any European nation." - Adolph Hitler at the Nazi Congress, 1935.
"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command." - Ellis.
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - Dryden.
"The heart has reasons to which reason has no knowledge." - Pascal
"He who will not reason is a bigot. He who cannot is a fool. He who dares not is a slave." Drummond.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the head of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - New Testament. Matt - XIX, 24
"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light." - Millay.
"Comedy is the public version of a private darkness. The funnier it is, the more one must speculate on how much terror lies hidden." - Paul Theroux
"I don't wanna grow up" - Tom Waits
...ah, college.
"The best sauce for food is hunger." - Socrates
"Half of art is knowing when to stop." - Radford
"The only thing the world will never have enough of is exaggerration." - Dali
"I never think of the future, it comes soon enough." -Einstein
"Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited." - Bierce
"Art lies in concealing art." -Ovid
"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." - Twain
"Theory - When you have ideas.
Ideology - When ideas have you" - (not sure who... Bierce?)
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a pray, where wealth accumulates and men decay." - Goldsmith.
"National Socialism does not harbour the slightest aggressive intent toward any European nation." - Adolph Hitler at the Nazi Congress, 1935.
"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command." - Ellis.
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - Dryden.
"The heart has reasons to which reason has no knowledge." - Pascal
"He who will not reason is a bigot. He who cannot is a fool. He who dares not is a slave." Drummond.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the head of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - New Testament. Matt - XIX, 24
"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light." - Millay.
"Comedy is the public version of a private darkness. The funnier it is, the more one must speculate on how much terror lies hidden." - Paul Theroux
"I don't wanna grow up" - Tom Waits
...ah, college.
'...and I never buy unbrellas 'cause there's always one around.'
-Tom Waits
-Tom Waits
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