Krissel Quotes & Sayings

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much. — Bent Larsen

What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced! — Guy Finley

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot. — Abraham Lincoln

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect. — Henry David Thoreau

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. — Lou Holtz

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. — Seneca The Younger

The relationship between a dog and a human is always complicated. The two know each other in a way nobody else quite understands, a connection shrouded in personal history, temperament, experience, instinct, and love. — Jon Katz

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra