Which Quotes

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.