Topica Quotes & Sayings

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. — Ezra Taft Benson

Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games. — Gary Gygax

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. — Gabriel Rheaume

Don't let your breath be taken you might need it one day — Thabiso Monkoe

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Watching. Watching with those piercing, clit licking blue eyes. — Lucian Bane

I like riding a bicycle built for two
by myself. — Harry S. Truman

I lit a Camel, blew smoke through my nose and looked at a piece of black shiny metal on a stand. It showed a full, smooth curve with a shallow fold in it and two protuberances on the curve. I stared at it. Marriott saw me staring at it. "An interesting bit," he said negligently. "I picked it up just the other day. Asta Dial's Spirit of Dawn." "I thought it was Klopstein's Two Warts on a Fanny," I said. Mr. Lindsay Marriott's face looked as if he had swallowed a bee. He smoothed it out with an effort. — Raymond Chandler

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal. — Richard Hell

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. — Charles Dickens

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden

The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the first person you meet, but only with those of your acquaintance of whom you know that they possess sufficient intelligence and self-respect not to advance absurdities; to appeal to reason and not to authority, and to listen to reason and yield to it; and, finally, to cherish truth, to be willing to accept reason even from an opponent, and to be just enough to bear being proved to be in the wrong, should truth lie with him. From this it follows that scarcely one man in a hundred is worth your disputing with him. You may let the remainder say what they please, for every one is at liberty to be a fool - desipere est jus gentium. — Arthur Schopenhauer