Murphy's miscellaneous laws: If an enemy is really dug in, you'll have forgotten to bring a mortar.
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.
The worship of wolves I am in a room full of wolves. I go to bed and sleep with wolves, I drink water with them. Now I can think about my life. They are watching me and just can wait a sign...
Trapped in our own body, we evaluate our own destiny in the light of freedom that we are intermittently assuming, with destroyed cells, with ulcerated flesh by incurable diseases, with decrepit...
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. Zeno's Conscience, 1923
Laziness is a kind of prehistoric animal, with thousands of tentacles, ever-changing skin, with an infinite variety of scales; it changes its scales and beliefs accorting to comfort criterion.
Fate is like gravity. You can jump up and down until your heart’s content, but the earth still falls into the sun, and the sun still courses through the galaxy, both indifferent to your...
My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and...
Everything is moral is ostentatious.
I am happy and content because I think I am.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties... Work is accomplished...
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Ce poate fi Moartea decat implinirea scopului acestei existente?
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in...