Quotes I.

Here are some quotes, poems... shit that's not by me, but which I love.


"I want to go to curly beach
And ride the curly sea
And paddle out beyond the reach
Of those who'd straighten me.
I'll take a little curly shell
And hold it to my ear
And when I hear the distant swell:
The gentle, distant magic bell,
I'll know the coast is clear." - Michael Leunig.


"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." - Horace.


"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson.


"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill.


"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean.


"Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends." - Isaiah Berlin.


"If I could be a lovely chap
Life would fall into my lap
And all my words would sound so nice
You'd want to hear me say them twice.
But what I want to say to you
Is only what I think is true
And so, alas, I'll always be
A rather unattractive me." - Michael Leunig.


"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon.


"Thought must be the harder; the heart, the keener.
Courage must be greater as our strength grows less." - 'Maldon'.


"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony." - Lou Reed.


"You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate." - Richard A. Weatherwax.


"We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because comets struck the earth and wiped out dinosaurs, thereby giving mammals a chance not otherwise available (so thank your lucky stars in a literal sense); because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and crook. We may yearn for a 'higher' answer - but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling, if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and exhilarating. We cannot read the meaning of life passively in the facts of nature. We must construct these answers ourselves - from our own wisdom and ethical sense. There is no other way."  - Stephen Jay Gould.


"Though my rime be ragged,
Tatter'd and jagged,
Rudely rain-beated,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith." - John Skelton.


"It is better to destroy, than to create what is meaningless." - Every Time I Die, 'Imitation Is The Sincerest From Of Battery'.