Matvei Guskov Quotes & Sayings

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue. — Walter Savage Landor

All method can do is to awaken the most fruitful associations of ideas already in mind. Hence the more methods we adopt - the greater the number of views we take of any problem - the more solutions will suggest themselves.
There is one further reason why we should take as many different viewpoints as possible. — Henry Hazlitt

Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. There is a frightful meaning in those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah's wrath! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My poetry is often criticized for a failure to communicate, but I take issue with this; my intention is to communicate and my feeling is that a poem that communicates something that's already known by the reader is not really communicating anything to him and in fact shows a lack of respect for him. — John Ashbery

Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then ... — William Butler Yeats

Life without pain has no meaning. — Arthur Schopenhauer

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities. — Ambrose Bierce