"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
A. J. Liebling
"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
Terry Pratchett
"As the twig is bent the tree inclines."
Virgil
"The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods."
Gordon Beeming
"Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects."
John Rush
"Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well."
Iván Fernández Anaya
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
Plato
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Charles Sanders Peirce
"In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different."
Eric Newby
"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
Pablo Picasso
"I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.Nida."
Faiqa Mansab
"Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever."
Susan C. Young
"TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
Ambrose Bierce
"The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph."
Italo Calvino
"To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inverted version of the mainstream's 'everything's fine."
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