Isaac Timm > Isaac's Quotes

“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

“Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre
"Where a door is closed, another is opened"
~ Don Quixote de la Mancha”
― Cervantes

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?”
― Charles Fuller

“Waters: Not havin' ain't no excuse for not gettin”
― Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”
― alexandre dumas

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel