WPharolin > WPharolin's Quotes

“Please all, and you will please none.”
― Aesop

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”
― Mel Brooks

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Dr. Seuss

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
― Terry Goodkind

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
― Robert Jordan

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”
― Terry Goodkind

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“Theology is ignorance with wings.”
― Sam Harris

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Aesop