Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
― Jim Henson

“Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
― Joseph Pulitzer

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature. And yet they must not be encouraged by being let alone. They must be recognized as facts, but unpleasant facts; things that stand in the way of civilization and religion and common decency. They can be met in but one way—by the breadth and broadening of human reason, by catholicity of taste and culture.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“If information isn’t driving a belief, information will not change that belief.”
― David Gatewood, Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy

“You don’t have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?” Dear folks, chickens don’t need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don’t need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know;”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

“there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

“You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.”
― George Washington