"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful" - Anton LaVey
"The Story never really ends. The book simply runs out of pages." - Nemesis aka Gravdigger (?)
"Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty." -Stanislaw J. Lee
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." -Gladys B. Stern
"If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply `You are wrong.' This
method works every time." -Henry C. Link
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again." -Franklin P. Jones
"If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed
with a mosquito." - Bette Rose
"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in
what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him,
listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Sand and Foam
"Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing
but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part." -Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931), Sand and Foam
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest
fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer". -Charles Caleb Colton
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is
writing a book." -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can
feel trust and reverence." -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
" . . . His Darkness and his Brightness exchanged a greeting of
extreme politeness." -Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
"The plan which I had formed in the beginning, to give in in all
minor matters, so as to keep what was of vital importance to me,
had turned out to be a failure. I had consented to give away my
possessions one by one, as a kind of ransom for my own life, but
by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest
thing of all, for fate to get rid of." -Isak Dinesen,
Out of Africa
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries,
and very frankly give them fruit for their songs." -Joseph Addison
"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." -Navajo Proverb
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Being proud and vain and loving adulation, he likes to think he has
conquered the seas, the air, and even Everest---though he has yet to
build a vessel of any kind that cannot plunge him to his death in a
matter of minutes. And in scaling the highest peaks he has done little
more than prove that he is not quite the equal of a mountain goat." -Alexander Key
The Riddle of Bill
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." -Horace
Mann
"When you first start out to practice the 5 ball cascade itself, most
of your practice will be in picking up the balls." -Rick Moll,
Learning to Juggle 5 Balls
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate
"The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same." -Heraclitus,
philosopher (~540-470 BCE)
"If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow."
-Arabian proverb
"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood." -Carl
Gustav Jung
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe
to do." -Galileo Galilei
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." -Marcus
Aurelius
"Not all those that wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we
are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-Hanlon's Razor
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."
-Ninety-Ninety
Rule
Eyecatching and/or Amusing Quotes from Books Darkoshi has been Reading
Dragon's Bluff - Mary Herbert
". . . The tax collector is coming to collect our tribute to the red dragon, and
it is always chaotic, for the kender have their picnic and the
"Hiyahowareyou" gathering, and the riffraff always get drunk. . ." (pg 95)
She reached up to tuck a strand of hair back under the turban and gave
it an affectionate pat. Thank you, Vizier. We will try again soon.
Although these silent conversations with her hat seemed odd, she was
beginning to enjoy it. (pg 163)
Prospero's Children - Jan Siegel
"Have you found it yet?"
"Found what?"
"What you are looking for."
"I don't know what I'm looking for," Fern pointed out.
"A profound philosophical statement. Not many people do, and if they did,
it would be far worse. To find what you seek would be an anticlimax, to
fail, a tragedy." (chapter 2, pg 43)
"The tinker took his purchase to a collector of such things, sensing its
mystery if not its power, a backstreet alchemist one-eighth sorceror,
seven-eighths charlatan. They studied it, he and his apprentice,
scanning the smoke for visions and peering into crystal balls, learning
the sort of things that you learn from staring at smoke and Venetian
glassware." (chapter 2, pg 44)
The Other Wind - Ursela K. LeGuin
Alder said reluctantly, "It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend
a man against the armies of the dead." (chapter 1, pg 54)
