Paul Eldridge Quotes
- Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect…
- We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
- To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
- History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
- If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
- There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
- We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
- With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
- A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
- It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of…
- Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
- Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
- To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary…
- Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
- Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
- Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.