Jerome K. Jerome, Writer, Born: May 2, 1859 – Died: June 14, 1927
Tag Archives: Quotes
Essentials To Happiness
Joseph Addison, Essayist, Born: May 1, 1672 – Died: June 17, 1719
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~Margaret Mead
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. ~Haruki Murakami
Falling In Love
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and …
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. ~Anne Tyler
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. ~Jim Morrison
Freedom Of Choice
“When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
“You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.” ~ Jay Leno
Dogs Are Leaders
Dogs are leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. ~Jerry Seinfeld
Writing Is A Solitary Business
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. ~Paul Auster
Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life. ~Charles Lamb
I am a cage, in search of a bird. ~Franz Kafka
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde
Art Quote
One eye sees, the other feels. ~Paul Klee
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. ~Jack Kerouac
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~Jack Kerouac
Books are a narcotic. ~Franz Kafka
We live for books. ~Umberto Eco
Change
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it. ~Audrey Hepburn
Living
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ~Albert Camus
Climbing Out Of Bed
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ~Charles Bukowski
Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau
Books. Cats. Life is good. ~Edward Gorey
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~Oscar Wilde
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~ Helen Keller
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” ~ Al Neuharth
Al Neuharth, Author, Born: March 22, 1924 – Died: April 19, 2013
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. ~Albert Camus
“Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.” ~ Earl Wilson
Earl Wilson, MLB pitcher, Born: October 2, 1934 – Died: April 23, 2005
Mostly it is loss which teaches us the worth things. ~Arthur Schopenauer
Senseless To Think Of Complaining
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. `~Jean-Paul Sartre
A Common Question
“The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?” ~ Jeff Bezos
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. ~Iris Murdoch
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, Born: April 22, 1724 – Died: February 12, 1804
Three Great Things
The three great things of life are: good health; work, and a philosophy of life. ~Jack London
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~Bertrand Russell
People
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say. ~Rene Descartes
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac
Wherever you are, it’s the place you need to be. ~Maxime Lagace
Shoes
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” ~ John Locke
Truth exists; only lies are invented. ~Georges Braque
Georges Braque, Painter, Born: May 13, 1882 – Died: August 31, 1963
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” ~Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow, Novelist ~ Born: April 22, 1873 – Died: November 21, 1945
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
All The Books We Own
“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
“Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ~ Ralph Ellison
Life After Death
“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1951
“Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.” ~ Martin Heidegger
Boundaries
“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.” ~ Martin Heidegger, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1976
Change Your Life
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Beat Generation
“The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.” ~ John Clellon Holmes, Author ~ 1926 – 1988
“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.” ~ Neal Cassady
People who try hard to do the right thing always seems mad. ~Stephen King
Redistribution Of Wealth
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that …
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andy Rooney
Simplify Your Life
“Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” ~Ernest Hemingway
“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~Allen Ginsberg
“Our heads are round so thought can change direction” ~Allen Ginsberg
Time And Space
“Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.” ~ Edwin Way Teale, Naturalist ~ 1899 – 1980
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” ~John Burroughs
Act Of Reading
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you’re just not conscious of the physical act of reading. ~ Frank Shorter
Dreaming
“It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.” ~ Rene Descartes, Philosopher ~ 1596 – 1650
“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this ‘I’ that ‘I’ know.” ~Rene Descartes
“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~Rene Descartes
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” ~John Burroughs
Each Day
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” ~ John Burroughs
Do Silly Things
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” ~Anton Chekhov
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fear Of Truth
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr
The Opposite Of
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac*
*Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969
“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.” ~ Jack Kerouac
Fear
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.” ~Immanuel Kant
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~Henry Rollins
A Good Friend
“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~ Lois Wyse, Author ~ 1926 – 2007
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Smiles And Laughter
“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.” ~ Debbie Shapiro, Author ~ Born: 1953
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.” ~Jonathan Franzen
Evil
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” ~ Bret Easton Ellis, Novelist ~ Born: March 7, 1964
“Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future” ~ Thomas A. Edison
The People Of The United States
“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess
“Invisible things are the only realities.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
To Be
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” ~ George Berkeley
“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed
“All perception is a gamble.” ~Edmund Husserl
People Know What They Do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984
A Pondering Mind 
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