Mehyar Khadour Quotes & Sayings

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result. — Lawrence Lessig

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — David Mitchell

This internal war of reason against the passions has made a division of those who would have peace into two sects. The first would renounce their passions, and become gods; the others would renounce reason, and become brute beasts. (Des Barreaux.) [157] But neither can do so, and reason still remains, to condemn the vileness and injustice of the passions, and to trouble the repose of those who abandon themselves to them; and the passions keep always alive in those who would renounce them. — Blaise Pascal

Three kings protested to me, that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again: and they showed, with great strength of reason, that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business. — Jonathan Swift

Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom. — Terri Cheney

We live by encouragement and die without it
slowly, sadly, and angrily. — Celeste Holm