"Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy."

-- John Wilmot

#Philosophy Quotes #Book Quotes #Swim Quotes

“When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”
“A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2005). “The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings”, p.136, Courier Corporation
“I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.”
“Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.”
“I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.”
“...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
“My government career is over.”

Source : "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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