Category Archives: Quote

“Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.” – Author Unknown (a shame because I’d like to meet them) via Penzu

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out—it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” Robert Service

“If you see a fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” Nassim Nicolas Taleb’s First Ethical Rule in Antifragile

“One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.” – Albert Einstein

“You are the same today that you’ll be five years from now except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.” ― Mac McMillan (attrib)

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell from Politics and the English Language (1946)

“Nothing great is easy.” On the monument to Captain Matthew Webb in Dawley High Street

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” Originally by George Bernard Shaw but used by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in his address to the Oireachtas Éireann 50 years ago this week. Frequently used as “Some men see things as they are and say, why;Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #222”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann Thanks to MBS

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy