quotes about Truth And Beauty

“But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.”

“Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.”

“I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree."”

“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”

“Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.”

“Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell,”

Source : "Boxer soothes fists with son's wet diapers". www.reuters.com. October 14, 2008.

“Live according to your income.”

“Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.”

“By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.”

“My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.”

Source : Richard Henry Wilde, “Stanzas”