“Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 55 of 303
“The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.”
“Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.”
“I read poetry to save time.”
“But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.”
“There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.”
“There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”
“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.”
“I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.”
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”
“People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.”
“One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
“That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
“It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.”
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.”