Dylan's Favorite Quotes!!!

Welcome to my Quote page. I have collected these quotes from some of my favorite books, journals, philosophers and psychologists. I hope you can find something that is of interest, because it has taken me a long time to get all of these. :o)
So here they are, and once again enjoy. :o)

• Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
  Psalm 30:5
  

• No happiness lasts for long
  Agamemnon AD 60
  

• I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind....It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than to be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.
  Ecclesiastes 4:4
  

• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
  The Buddah 500 BC
  

• He who fears all snares falls into none.
  Publius Syrus 43 BC
  

• For news of the heart, ask the face.
  Guinean Proverb
  

• Common sense describes what has happened more easily than it predicts what will happen.
  Annoymous Author
  

• We are, it seems, very, very good at detecting patterns, whether they're there or not, and not so good at testing our hypothesis.
  Annoymous Author
  

• The failure to recognize random occurences for what they are can predispose people to seek extraordinary explanations for ordinary events.
  Annoymous Author
  

• All people are the same; only their habits differ.
  Confucius 551-479 BC
  

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
  Mohatma Gandhi
  

• The righteous know the needs of their animals
  Proverbs 12:10
  

• It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problem with a mind free from bias
  Simone de Beauvoir "The Second Sex" 1953
  

• Do not let your left hand know what your right is doing.
  Matthew 6:3
  

• And if it harm none, do what thou wilt.
  Wiccan Rede 500 BC
  

• What's the difference between a man and ET? ET phoned home.
  Annoymous Author
  

• The only reason democrats haven't taxed sex is because they won't put their money where their mouth is.
  Gallagher
  

• One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to live.
  Leo Tolstoy 1856
  

• Will your child learn to multiply before she learns to subtract?
  Anti-teen pregnancy poster, Childrens Defense Fund
  

• I am still learning.
  Michelangelo 1560, at age 85
  

• In youth we learn, in age we understand.
  Marie Von Edrer-Eschenbach "Aphorisms" 1883
  

• Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.
  Dante "The Divine Comedy" 1300-1321
  

• Do not go gently into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night" 1952
  

• Consider, friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me.
  Scottish Tombstone Epitaph
  

• The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.
  Pascal "Pensees" 1670
  

• I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
  King David, Psalms 139:14
  

• Only mind has sights and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.
  Epicharmus "Fragments" 550 BC Br>

• Pain is increased by attending to it.
  Charles Darwin "Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals" 1872
  

• From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
  Dr Suess "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish" 1960
  

• Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished?....To this, I answer in one word, from EXPIERENCE.
  John Locke "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" 1690
  

• A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persicuted. He must also be right.
  Stephen Jay Gould "Ever Since Darwin" 1973
  

• When I examined myself, and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
  Albert Einstein
  

• The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb will not be very sleepy.
  Woody Allen, in the 1975 movie Love and Death
  

• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
  Philosopher Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
  

• How strange would appear to be this thing that man call pleasure! And how curiously it is related to what is thought to be the opposite, pain!...Wherever the one is found, the other follows up behind.
  Plato "Phaedo" Fourth cenruty BC
  

• Learning is the eye of the mind
  Thomas Drake "Bibliotheca Scholatic Instructissima" 1633
  

• Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig
  Mark Twain
  

• God is love.
  Love is blind.
  Ray Charles is blind.
  Ray Charles is God
  Annoymous Graffiti
  

• When you know a thing, to hold that you kon it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.
  Confucius "Analects" 551-479 BC
  

• To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
  Antoine Lavoisier "Elements of Chemistry" 1789
  

• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
  Henry Ward Beecher "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit" 1887
  

• Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
  Dorothea Dix 1801-1887
  

• The fullest person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
  Irish Proverb
  

• They can because they think they can.
  Virgil "Aeneid" 19 BC
  

• Your face, my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters.
  William Shakespear's Lady McBeth to her husband
  

• Asking an incumbent member of congress to vote for term limits is like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
  Republican Senator Bob Inglis from North Carolina
  

• There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as between us and others.
  Michel be Montaigne "Essays" 1588
  

• To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
  Oscar Wilde "An Ideal Husband" 1895
  

• If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
  "Desiderata" Found in St. Pauls church, London 1692
  

• We are all mad at sometime or another.
  Bautista Mantuanus "Eclogues" 1500
  

• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
  William Shakespear 1600
  

• My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed, help doing so; but there was no real life in me.
  Leo Tolstoy "My Confession" 1887
  

• Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings.
  Luigi Pirandello "Six Characters in search of an Author" 1922
  

• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
  William Shakespear "Hamlet" 1600