Sokalskaya Quotes & Sayings

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.] — Juvenal

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. — Thomas Paine

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? — Susan Orlean

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man ... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis] — Ernest Hemingway,

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. — Walter Savage Landor

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too, ... perhaps better than we actually are. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets. — Firoozeh Dumas

They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. — Richard Preston

The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for — Louisa May Alcott

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth. — Watchman Nee

Companions were not allowed to lie. I don't know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to get Benjamin to lie, and he never could. As we got older, I tried experiments, attempting to find a way for him to lie. Lies of omission, white lies, whoppers. Nothing. He couldn't lie. My father told me that they were programmed that way. He seemed kind of proud about that.
And now, I hoped, that would save my life. — Erma I Talamante

Being awesome makes me hungry. — Barry Goldberg

Some primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. — Ogden Nash

Wolves fear humans for good reason. Humans fear wolves out of misunderstanding. — John Theberge