Miscellaneous Quotes

• Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

• Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.

• Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

• I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

• As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.

• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

• Any fool can make a rule.

• Plato was a bore.

• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

• Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

• Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

• The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.

• Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

• Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

• Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

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