Jay Corwin > Jay's Quotes

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“И на этот раз Передонов, не долго думая, сочинил письмо к княгине. Он писал:
"Я люблю вас, потому что вы — холодная и далекая. Варвара потеет, с нею жарко спать, несет, как из печки. Я хочу иметь любовницу холодную и далекую. Приезжайте и соответствуйте".”
― Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon: The Russian Symbolist Classic

“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
― Sologub Fedor a