Paul Eldridge famous quotes

05-20-2025

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Life #Yoke #Mourn
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Character #Men #Sea
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Learning #Spiders #Facts
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Forgiveness #Stones #Genius
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Past #Bird #Triumph
It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Men #Creative #Foolish
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Men #Ideas #Clear
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Necklaces
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Trying #Shepherds #Logic
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Gold #Consumerism #Avarice
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Lying #Reading #Resurrection
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Quotation Marks #Theft #Bigs
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Wisdom #Long #Gathering
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Men #Treats #Position
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Stuff #Aphorism #Endeavor
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Discovery #Sole #Claims
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Trials #Crime #Gallows
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Transformation #Silent #Footnotes
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Tombstone #Life And Death #Littles
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
-- Paul Eldridge

#Jealousy #Passion #Love Is

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