Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. – Al McGuire
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. – James Baldwin
There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. – Author Unknown
In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”
Emotion has taught mankind to reason. – Marquis de Vauvenargues
It is not easy, the choice between God and the devil, for it is presented to us as a choice between forgiveness and understanding. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. – Mason Cooley
If anyone were to be willing to trace his descent through an ape as his grandfather, would he be willing to trace his descent similarly on the side of his grandmother? – Samuel Wilberforce
What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. – Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. – Seneca
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorthea Lange
It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? – Stanislaw J. Lec
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. – Lord Barnett
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. – William Blake
