Merlyn Purdy Quotes & Sayings

Regret is an appalling waste of time. — Katherine Mansfield

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. — Jay Leno

The ocean moans over dead men's bones. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It's one thing to predict [the complete breakdown of civilization]. It's something else again to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing ... for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality ... It was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract. — Isaac Asimov

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully. — Frederick Douglass

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears. — Albert Camus

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light. — John O'Donohue

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. — Jorge Luis Borges

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility. — Harriet Martineau

Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke. — Paul Bowles

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills. — Blanche Willis Howard