Theft Quotes by Paul Eldridge

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

— Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

— Paul Eldridge

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

— Paul Eldridge

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and…

— Paul Eldridge

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

— Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

— Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

— Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

— Paul Eldridge

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

— Paul Eldridge

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And…

— Paul Eldridge

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

— Paul Eldridge