This is Robert Giordano's personal collection of quotes from various authors,
philosophers, artists, politicians, and poets...
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
- Edgar Allan Poe
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
- Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation - to make a point - than to further the cause of truth.
- Edgar Allan Poe
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
- Benjamin Franklin
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell
My shoe is off
My foot is cold.
I have a bird
I like to hold.
My hat is old.
My teeth are gold.
And now my story
is all told.
- Dr. Seuss
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd.
- William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
- William Blake
Those who restrain their desires, do so because their
desires are weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Idiot"
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
Don't kill the messenger.
- Sophocles
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
- George Orwell
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell, "1984"
Big brother is watching you.
- George Orwell, "1984"
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
- George Orwell
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
- Charles Dickens
It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
- Charles Dickens
He listens well who takes notes.
- Dante
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance -- the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
- William Shakespeare
Her lips are red, her looks are free,
Her locks are yellow as gold:
Her skin is white as leprosy,
And she is far liker Death than he;
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information...
- Albert Einstein
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Ave atque vale
- "Hail and farewell"
Bene legere saecla vincere
- "To read well is to master the ages"
Cineri gloria sera venit
- "Fame comes too late to the dead"
amor vincit omnia
- "Love conquers all"
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
- "I will find a way, or I will make one"
Infinitus est numerus stultorum
- "Infinite is the number of fools"
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
- "I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery"
