Literature Quotes - Page 19

Knowledge is justified belief.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Children make your life important.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

But love's a malady without a cure.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.