Saturday, April 3, 2010

What They Said

Here's a smattering of quotes that I've posted on Twitter over the past month. Which one's your favorite?

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. – Voltaire

The onion is the truffle of the poor. – Robert J. Courtine

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. – Mark Twain

The world belongs to the enthusiastic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. – Alan Watts

The reverse side also has a reverse side. – Japanese proverb

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. – Lin Yutang

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – Andre Gide

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. – Baba Ram Dass

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. – Zen proverb

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. – Georg Hegel

The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Nietzche

Even a clock that doesn't work is right twice a day. – Polish proverb

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. – Edward R Murrow

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. – Ludwig Borne

There's more to truth than just the facts. – Author unknown

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss

We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? – Maurice Freehill

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. – Roger Miller

It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. – James Thurber

The obstacle is the path. – Zen proverb

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. – Russian proverb

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James

To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday. – John Burroughs

When the student is ready, the master appears. – Buddhist proverb

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. – Ashleigh Brilliant

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. – Victor Hugo

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. – Kierkegaard

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. – WEB DuBois

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. – Dr. Seuss