Miscellaneous Quotes

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.