Essay Quotes

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.

Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex abstract thoughts, and ascertain the intended spiritual direction of a person’s life.

The unification of the planet's history, that humanist dream which God has spitefully allowed to come true, has been accompanied by a process of dizzying reduction. True, the termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories. But the character of modern society hideously exacerbates this curse: it reduces man's life to its social function; the history of a people to a small set of events that are themselves reduced to a tendentious interpretation; social life is reduced to political struggle, and that in turn to the confrontation of just two great global powers.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

Great losses are great lessons.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Simplicity saves strength.

The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence. Unlike the last (male) head of the International Monetary Fund, the current (female) head is not going to assault an employee at a luxury hotel; top-ranking female officers in the US military, unlike their male counterparts, are not accused of any sexual assaults; and young female athletes, unlike those male football players in Steubenville, aren't likely to urinate on unconscious boys, let alone violate them and boast about it in YouTube videos and Twitter feeds. No female bus riders in India have ganged up to sexually assault a man so badly he dies of his injuries, nor are marauding packs of women terrorizing men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and there's no maternal equivalent to the 11 percent of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers.

Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the fall of man … To be fair, their arguments are backed with scientific fact taken from documentary films such as The Terminator, The Matrix, and RoboCop.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Never say more than is necessary.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

I've learned that a certain amount of self-doubt is a good tool for correcting, understanding, listening, and progressing - though too much is paralyzing and total self-confidence produces arrogant idiots. There's a happy medium between these poles to which the genders have been pushed, a warm equatorial belt of give and take where we should all meet.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.