beitghanima's favorite quotes
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow -
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them!
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.