Echadote Quotes & Sayings

In every trouble the little ones duck more easily. — Jean De La Fontaine

I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out. — Silvio Berlusconi

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present. — Narendra Modi

On Improbability:
There's an infinite number of things that can go wrong but only a finite number of things that can go right.
In the infinitude of unlikely events many will happen with unnerving frequency.
Tautology: A given improbable event isn't likely to happen.
Corollary: Shit happens, but you'll not know its ilk.
I'm certain that nothing is certain. — Kalifer Deil

You're telling someone in a wheelchair 'Walking is awesome. You should get up and walk.' It's not that easy. — Jeff Zentner

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things. — Nikki Giovanni

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. — Claude M. Bristol