Quotes Meme

[alobear]

Here are my five quotes:

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen


The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Comments

ODQ quotes

[(Anonymous)]

video meliora, proboque; deteriora sequor
(I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse)
Publius Ovidius Naso

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honettes gens des siecles passes.
(The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the best people of past centuries)
Rene Descartes

I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

Human blunders, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A.J.P. Taylor

Cake, please.
Eddie Izzard
(Yes, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations)

That was fun, thank you for the idea.

David

Re: ODQ quotes

[alobear.livejournal.com]

Those are great! I especially like the Swift one. And well done for broadening it out to international quotes - very nice!