Xunicode Quotes & Sayings

To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig

I shall do nothing to discourage my patient, Monseigneur, any more than I shall bleed him, as many good people urge me to do. The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope. — Willa Cather

Mother after the Greek kids' parties because they served Italian rum cake. Covered in slivered almonds and soaked in booze, Italian rum cake is everything kids hate about everything. No one even ate it. — Tina Fey

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. — Nellie L. McClung

Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses — Matthew Goldfinger

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity. — Jodi Picoult

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. — John Harvey Kellogg

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things. — Frederick Lenz

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. — Xun Zi

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous. — Robert G. Ingersoll