Aristippus Quotes
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
Quotes to Explore
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
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God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.
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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
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Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
