Saltus Quotes & Sayings

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative. — Daisy Ridley

But to such a man as Schopenhauer, - one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out a system for the remaining fraction, - to such a man as he, the question of esteem, or the lack thereof, was of small consequence. He cared nothing for the existence which he led in the minds of other people. To his own self he was true, to the calling of his destiny constant, and he felt that he could sit and snap his fingers at the world, knowing that Time, who is at least a gentleman, would bring him his due unasked. — Edgar Saltus

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. — Frederick Douglass

I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer? — Edgar Saltus

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder. — Tony Robbins

If you'd call it a robot," muttered Arthur. "It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine. — Douglas Adams

If you were that sort of girl, then ... " Merik lifted a hand to her jaw - tentative at first, then more confident when she didn't pull away. "Then I would start here and move down your throat." His fingers whispered over her neck, to her collarbone - and Merik was pleased by how punctuated her breaths grew. How much her lips trembled. — Susan Dennard

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
Nature makes no jumps.
[Natura non facit saltus]
All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world. — Carl Linnaeus

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. — Edgar Saltus

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see. — Nadege Richards

Skepticism is history's bedfellow. — Edgar Saltus

Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust. — Edgar Saltus

Legally, Moosbrugger's case could be summed up in-a sentence. He
was one of those borderline cases in law and forensic medicine
known even to the layman as a case of diminished responsibility.
These unfortunates typically suffer not only substandard health
but also have a substandard disease, Nature has a peculiar prefer-
ence for producing such people in droves. Natura non fecit saltus,
she makes no jumps but prefers gradual transitions; even on the
grand scale she keeps the world in a transitional state between imbe-
cility and sanity. — Robert Musil

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment. — Edgar Saltus

I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.
Ezra smiled. "Can I come? — Sara Shepard

Since the time I had ridden Vodalus's charger out of Saltus, I had supposed in my innocence that all mounts might be divided into two sorts: the highbred and swift, and the cold-blooded and slow. The better, I thought, ran with the graceful ease, almost, of a coursing cat; the worse moved so tardily that it hardly mattered how they did it. It used to be a maxim of one of Thecla's tutors that all two-valued systems are false, and I discovered on that ride a new respect for him. My benefactor's mount belonged to that third class (which I have since discovered is fairly extensive) comprising those animals that outrace the birds but seem to run with legs of iron upon a road of stone. Men have numberless advantages over women and for that — Gene Wolfe

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus

It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way. — H. Rider Haggard

Better to have somebody who isn't boring than somebody who is. — Haruki Murakami

I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake. — Edgar Saltus