Favorite Quotes

[hectorberlioz]

"Cows may be purely economical, in the sense that we cannot see that they do much beyond grazing and seeking better grazing grounds. And that is why a History of Cows in twelve volumes would not make for very lively reading."
~ GK Chesterton

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
~Hector Berlioz

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
~C. S. Lewis