Life and Existence

Even death is unreliable: instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one.

Habit is a great deadener.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

VLADIMIR : That passed the time.

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It’s a reasonable percentage.

Perhaps my best years are gone … but I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire that’s in me now.

Perhaps my best years are gone … but I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire that’s in me now.

Days and months are travellers of eternity.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

What then remains, but that we still should cry,

What then remains, but that we still should cry,

Printing, gunpowder, and the mariner’s needle [compass] … these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.