I don't have any. Well, there is one that sticks in the mind but it really needs to be read in the context of the remainder of that author's chapter - on it's own much of the meaning is lost.
Below I have a list of quote from: poets, philosophers, writers, a famous violinist, a politician, a comedian and famous people throughout history.. Some of the quotes listed are humorous, but many are profound and wise
Cursed be the social lies that warp us to the living truth - Alfred Lord Tennyson
History is a race between education and catastrophe - H. G. Wells.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out - Anton Chekhov.
The soul is healed by being with children - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Children need models rather than critics - Joseph Joubert
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation - Bertrand Russell.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - Bertrand Russell.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself - Leo Tolstoy.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance - George Bernard Shaw.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty - Richard Lovelace.
'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach - Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn - Thomas Gray.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood - T. S. Eliot
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance - Carl Sandburg.
If you want to be loved, be lovable - Ovid.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise - Horace.
Try. Fail. Fail better - Samuel Beckett.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Voltaire.
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Charlotte Bronte.
The first draft of everything is always shit Ernest Hemingway.
Easy reading is damn hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.' Virginia Woolf.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity - Gilbert K. Chesterton.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health - E. B. White.
Writing is the supreme solace - W. Somerset Maugham.
In Art, Economy is Beauty - Henry James.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force - Dorothy Parker.
Success is dependent on effort - Sophocles.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions -Sophocles.
Common sense is not so common - Voltaire.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers - Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom - Aeschylus.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill.
If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television - Woody Allen.
Adrian - how on earth can you remember so many??
I don't have any. Well, there is one that sticks in the mind but it really needs to be read in the context of the remainder of that author's chapter - on it's own much of the meaning is lost.
So I'll go back to my proofreading :(
An excellent question, ASG.
Below I have a list of quote from: poets, philosophers, writers, a famous violinist, a politician, a comedian and famous people throughout history.. Some of the quotes listed are humorous, but many are profound and wise
Cursed be the social lies that warp us to the living truth - Alfred Lord Tennyson
History is a race between education and catastrophe - H. G. Wells.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out - Anton Chekhov.
The soul is healed by being with children - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Children need models rather than critics - Joseph Joubert
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation - Bertrand Russell.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - Bertrand Russell.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself - Leo Tolstoy.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance - George Bernard Shaw.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty - Richard Lovelace.
'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach - Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn - Thomas Gray.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood - T. S. Eliot
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance - Carl Sandburg.
If you want to be loved, be lovable - Ovid.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise - Horace.
Try. Fail. Fail better - Samuel Beckett.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Voltaire.
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Charlotte Bronte.
The first draft of everything is always shit Ernest Hemingway.
Easy reading is damn hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.' Virginia Woolf.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity - Gilbert K. Chesterton.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health - E. B. White.
Writing is the supreme solace - W. Somerset Maugham.
In Art, Economy is Beauty - Henry James.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force - Dorothy Parker.
Success is dependent on effort - Sophocles.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions -Sophocles.
Common sense is not so common - Voltaire.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers - Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom - Aeschylus.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill.
If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television - Woody Allen.
Trust your ability - Itzhak Perlman.
I hope you enjoy these snippets of wisdom.