You should have listened to her thoughts instead of your heart.
Dennis G. Wilder
Quotes
#81 – Rousseau on Society
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Rousseau
#80 – Bukowski on Work
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
Charles Bukowski
#79 – Dyatlov on Deadlines
If we can do everything at once then why do we need deadlines?
Dmitry Dyatlov
#78 – Dyatlov on Patience
If you just wait long enough, someone will definitely do something stupid that you can take advantage of later.
Dmitry Dyatlov
#77 – La Rochefoucauld, Love
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
#76 – Lorenz on Trust
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
Konrad Lorenz
#75 – de Botton, News
a flourishing life requires a capacity to recognize the times when the news no longer has anything original or important to teach us; periods when we should refuse imaginative connection with strangers, when we must leave the business of governing, triumphing, failing, creating or killing to others, in the knowledge that we have our own objectives to honour in the brief time still allotted to us.
Alain de Botton
#74 – Hearst on Relationships
It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn’t be here.
William Randolph Hearst
#73 – Murdoch on Marriage & Art
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
Iris Murdoch