C.R. > C.R.'s Quotes

“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Fiction is as important as fact, but we should never confuse the one with the other.”
― Anonymous

“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
― Robert Frost

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“I could have been a great many things.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ”
― Abigail Adams

“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“People laugh at things they don't understand. It makes them feel safe. But it's a false feeling. They are no safer. They just feel as if they are. The world is full of people too foolish to judge the difference.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Have You Seen Luis Velez?

“I think we are all hopelessly flawed.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby. If you give her a house, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she will give you her heart. She multiples and enlarges whatever is given to her. So if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!”
― William Golding

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
― Voltaire