Monday, June 21, 2010 @7:33 pm
I came across some quotes today, and decided to look for more.
"A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn't have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it." -Andy Warhol
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." -C.S. Lewis
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." -Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar Wilde
"We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter." -Mignon McLaughlin (hmm, is this the McLaughlin that irritates law students?)
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness." -Robert Frost
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." -Robert Brault
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." -Laurens van der Post
"Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles." -Herbert Agar
"Freedom means choosing your burden." -Hephzibah Menuhin
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming." -William Hazlitt