Max Bixby > Max's Quotes

“You can trust bad liars.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”
― Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules

“While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense of invulnerability at having made it back from the brink. Still missing in the current environment is a genuine sense of humility.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.”
― Solon

“Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one”
― Woody Allen

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
― Lao Tzu

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ”
― Thomas Szasz

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
― Thomas Szasz