"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

-- Thomas Hobbes

#Life Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Men Quotes

“Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.”

Source : David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House
“The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.”
“Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.”

Source : "Social Security". Kudlow's Money Politics blog, January 14, 2005.
“Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.”

Source : Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media
“I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.”
“It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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