Beilby Porteus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
A tenor is not a man but a disease.

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