Favorite saying

• "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Desiderius Erasmus "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle " I will miss our conversations.." The Last Samurai "All great rivers upon reaching the ocean cease to be known by any other name and simply become the ocean" Buddha "You must have seen those soured individuals who are so wrapped up in their philosophic studies or some other serious, exacting affairs that they are old before they were ever young." Desiderius Erasmus "I would believe only in a god who could dance" Friedrich Nietzsche "Many brief follies- that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a SINGLE long stupidity" Friedrich Nietzsche "Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent- thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior." Friedrich Nietzsche "Hence only he who is willing to give his body for the sake of the world is fit to be entrusted with the world." Lao Tsu "Only he who knows what is enough will always have enough." Lao Tsu "We find that the work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." Voltaire "Why do we fall down? So that we can learn to pick ourselves back up!" Batman Begins "God pity them both and pity us all who vainly the dreams of youth recall, for all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these 'it might have been', ah well! for us all some sweet hope lies deeply buried from human eyes, and in the hearafter angels may roll the stone from its grave away" John Greenleaf Whittier "The lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time, footprints that perhaps another sailing ore' life's solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing shall take heart again, let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate, still achieving still pursuing learn to labor and to wait." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "I have never believed the people when they spoke of great men- and I maintain my belief that it was an inverse cripple, who had too little of everything and too much of one thing" Nietzsche "The Earth has a skin, and this skin has many diseases. One of these diseases is called 'man'" Nietzsche "It is the stillest words that bring the storm. Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world" Friedrich Nietzsche "This-- is now MY path-- where is yours? For THE way does not exist" Friedrich Nietzche "And he whom you do not teach to fly, teach-- to fall FASTER!" Friedrich Nietzsche "Make sure that what you say is of some profit rather than merely courteous" Geoffrioi De Charny"