Quotes 1 till 20 of 1776.
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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
Source: The Two Cultures (1959)
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