Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Celebrities)
I am heir to all eras, in time's first ranks.
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I am heir to all eras, in time's first ranks.
Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Logic is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Who stays it still withal? With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in whyich it has been able to bear them. As a consequence everything that the world has always taken seriously is the comical side of things.
The world divides itself in: those which eat the chocolate without bread; those which are not able to eat the chocolate if they do not eat also the bread; those which don't have chocolate; those which don't have the bread.