Dovre Quotes & Sayings

But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, — Jorge Luis Borges

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule. — Philippe Kahn

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. — Thomas Carlyle

The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One — Joseph Bottum