quotes on vision

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Author Unknown



Benjamin Franklin: "And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time act like we didn't want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless."



Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather



I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. ~Robert Hugh Benson



When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche



Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~George Orwell



Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick



You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~David Lloyd George



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Skipping is the walk of joy. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ~Victor Hugo



People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust



Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ~Peter Mere Latham



Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey



Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? ~Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)



I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith



When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. ~Author Unknown



No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu