Linda Swain > Linda's Quotes

“We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.”
― Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

“As we
dwell here between two mysteries, of a soul within and an ordered
Universe without, so among us are granted to dwell certain men of more
delicate intellectual fibre than their fellows--men whose minds have, as
it were, filaments to intercept, apprehend, conduct, translate home to us
stray messages between these two mysteries”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
― H. L. Mencken

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
― H.L. Mencken

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
― H.L. Mencken

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”
― Ogden Nash

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Many a man inlove with a dimple makes the mistake of marring the whole Girl”
― Stephen Leacock

“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a days work in the last fifty years.”
― Stephen B.Leacock

“concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.”
― Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”
― Stephen Leacock

“The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
― Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.”
― Stephen Leacock

“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. ”
― Stephen Leacock

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
― Stephen Leacock

“He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
”
― Stephen Leacock

“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

“Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing. ”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

“Do what you do for the sheer joy of it,
Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.”
― Neale Donald Walsch