Things - Quotes
The things I want to know are in books, [...] my best friend is the man who`ll get me a book I ain`t read.
Many children can do extraordinary things; we are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.
Children were pretty things at three years old; but began to be great plagues at six, and were quite intolerable at ten.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs.
Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Sometimes I felt that there were too many painful things in this world, and if I thought about them all, my heart might break in two.