"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements." "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." "What a piece of w...
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”—Shakespeare “Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”—Shakespeare, Hamlet Shakespeare Quotes On Friendship “Boldness be my fr...
I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Judgment and Judges My salad days, when I was green in judgment. Speak of me as I am...
His writings explore themes like the human condition, morality,addiction, and the struggles of contemporary society. Wallace’s magnum opus, Infinite Jest (1996) made it to the list of ‘One of the hundred best English-language novels’ from 1923 to 2005. His other notable works include “The...
My thirst and passion from boyhood... has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, ...
that Meletus is a doer of evil, in that he pretends to be in earnest when he is only in jest, and is so eager to bring men to trial from a pretended zeal and interest about matters in which he really never had the smallest interest. And the truth of this I will endeavour to prov...
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”―Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”―Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde “Life is neve...
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. —Jacques Yves Cousteau 147 Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on...
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.“ (Hamlet, act 5 scene 1) “If it be now, ’tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.” ...
144. “Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.” — William Shakespeare 145. “Remember me.” — William Shakespeare 146. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.” — William Shakespeare 147. “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”...