Really bored… By Shorty | January 6th, 2008
I really love quotes! There is just something so inspiring in such a short amount of words! So I found some to share….
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
-Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright (1876-1944)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
It’s choice -not chance- that determines your destiny.
-Jean Nidetch
The more things change, the more they remain… insane.
-Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05.09.04
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been comitted in the name of rebellion.
-C.P. Snow (1905-1980)
The judge is condemed when the criminal is absolved.
-Publilius Syrus (~100 BC) Maxiums
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so taht society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is society has a direct interest.
-W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
-Kelvin Throop III
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
-J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
-Czech Proverb
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
-William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any womans feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
-Jane Austen (1775-1817), Mansfield Park
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
-Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
-Jean Baptiste Montegut
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
-Voltaire (1694-1778)
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
-Anonymous Proverb
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
-Saint Jerome (374AD-419AD)
Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
-Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant Weblog, 11.29.05
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121AD-180AD), Meditations 200 AD