What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Great short quote and quotation by: Herbert Simon, economist ,
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Great short quote and quotation by: Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers , Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Herrick , English lyric poet (1591 – 1674)
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. Great short quote and quotation by: Andre Malraux , French author & resistance leader (1901 – 1976)
Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there. Great short quote and quotation by: Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955 ,
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Douglas ,
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. Great short quote and quotation by: Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3 , Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English critic & poet (1772 – 1834)
Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, "Economy"
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, “Economy” , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)