All Quotes By Tag: Essay
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”
“Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert’s novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert’s vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!”
“The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.”
“Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.”
“When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.”
“Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.”
“Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.”
“My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.”
“One who doesn’t recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.”
“You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.”
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”
“Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.”
“Faster is fatal, slower is safe.”
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