Archiline Quotes & Sayings

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. — Elaine Scarry

Truth is like light; you can shut your eyes to it, but it is ever before you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old. — Kurt Angle

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality. — Niki Lauda

Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel — Rachael Wade

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash

Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the Catholic Church. No complicated creeds to which everybody must subscribe. No infallible pronouncements by a pope. Nobody can tell Jews what to believe. Within reason, you can believe what you like ... We have orthopraxy instead of orthodoxy. Right practice rather then right belief. That's all. You Christians make such a fuss about theology, but it's not important in the way you think. It's just poetry, really, ways of talking about the inexpressible. — Hyam Maccoby

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B.H. Liddell Hart