Paul Eldridge Quotes

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.