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May Quotes by Tom Robbins
- 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
- This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to…
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of…
- A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way…
- But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What…
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
- There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable…
- The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence…
- A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book…
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
- In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and…
- As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with…
- The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there…
- The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle