Favorite Quotes

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not." - Leopardi

 

"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it." - Duhamel

 

"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached." - Leibniz

 

"The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me." - Kertesz

 

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed." - Young

 

"Moonlight is sculpture." - Hawthorne

 

"Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching." - Barnum

 

"History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical." - Bloch

 

"Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be." - Cahan

 

"Competition is a sin." - Rockefeller

 

"Look at life with the eyes of a child." - Kollwitz

 

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." - Calvin

 

"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible." - Whistler

 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Thoreau

 

"If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs." - Clare

 

"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert." - Quesnel

 

"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated." - Bulfinch

 

"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great." - Reynolds

 

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Tupper

 

"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write." - Housman