Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Finding someting is nothing. The hard part lies in adding to oneself what one has found.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is in such an abundance, is the fundamental brick of the universe. I say that in the universe there is more stupidity than hydrogen.
Words are full of falseness or art; the look is the language of the heart.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the pavingstone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
There's just one horrible thing in the world, only one unforgivable sin: the boredom.