Faloni Quotes & Sayings

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. — Franz Kafka

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine. — V.S. Pritchett

Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves. — Belle De Jour

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights,
Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites. — Thomas More

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, September 3, 1816] — John Adams