quotes about a guy

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. ~Nicholas de Belleville



You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary



Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ~Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789



The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics



Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~Author Unknown



Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby



Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~Georg Hegel



Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau



Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Frank Burns, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda



Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb



A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton



You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance. ~Sweeney Todd Lundgren



All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman



Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? ~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree



If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown



Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851



Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg



I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning