Thank you Lewis Carroll, for teaching me the difference between meaning what I say, and saying what I mean.

Favorite Quotes by Others



If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
~ Lewis Carroll

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
~ Lewis Carroll

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
 ~ Lewis Carroll

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter."
~ Lewis Carroll 
 


Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
~ Seneca



As every man is haunted by his own demon, vexed by his own, disease this checks all his activity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson



Every exit is an entry to somewhere else.
~ Tom Stoppard



There are two ways to get enough. One way is to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
~ G.K. Chesterson



A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.
~ C. H. Spurgeon



We are here and it is now. Further than that, all else is moonshine
~H.L. Mencken



Think with the heart, feel with the brain.
~ George Szell



I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
~Oscar Wilde

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

~Oscar Wilde



I know at last what I want to be when I grow up. When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
~Joseph Heller



Any sufficiently advanced technology s indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C. Clarke



You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
~William Blake



External conditions are not what cause problems; the way we think about external conditions cause problems to ourselves.
~Patricia Garfield



I think and think for months and years.  Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
~ Albert Einstien

Imagination is more imortant than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstien

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
~ Albert Einstien

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.  
~ Albert Einstien



If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
~ D.H. Lawrence



There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness echo  to contemplate what is happening.
~ Marshall McLuhan



Do not go back to the origins,  do not seek an impossible harmony, cherish all the differences you find on the road.
~ Carlos Fuentes - The Champion



Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle -Sherlock Holmes



Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. 
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Joseph Heller... and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22′ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut



The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~ Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
~ Voltaire

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.
~ Voltaire
 


Nobody know anything.
~ William Goldman



Men are tormented with the opinions they have of things and not by the things themselves.
~ Manual of Epictetus, c. 10. 



No good deed goes unpunished.
~ Claire Boothe Luce



The large print givett, but the small print taketh away.
~ Tom Waits


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