Lucifera's Favorite Quotes"The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. THey also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." -Sir Winston Churchill "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." -Bertrand Russell "I am treated as evil by those who feel persecuted because they are not allowed to force me to believe as they do." "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot "No one can be in perfect accord with anyone but himself." -Arthur Schopenhauer "The foundation stone for any achievement is Desire." "Life's greatest achievement is the continual remaking of yourself so that at last you know how to live." -Winfred Rhodes "What we do interprets what we say." "Life is action, and not to act is death." "Adversity introduces man to himself." "Adversity does not break man, it makes them. Opposition and failure bring out what is in a man." How is it possible to expect manking to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?" -Johnathan Swift Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -Isadora Duncan "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." - Michael Landon "I never hold a grudge. After I get even with the son-of-a-bitch I forget all about it." W.C. Fields "You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundations. It is the permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflice you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every mement they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world." -Octave Mirbeau |
