Post Your Favorite Literary Quotes

[Red Terror]

The following quote I first discovered when I read Joyce. He used it as the epigraph to his novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It has to do with the story of Daedalus and Icarus --- how they were trapped in the labyrinth and then Daedalus turned to "unknown arts" to escape from the maze. Icarus did not fare as well, though.

Then he turned his mind to unkown arts and changed the face of nature.

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses; Chapter VIII, line 18.

[seerseenbyseein]

They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia. Winston Churchill

(the Germans put Lenin into a boxcar, locked the door, and sent the train into Russia)

[Danik 2016]

"If words are silver, silence is gold"

[seerseenbyseein]

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.” Saul Bellow

[Pompey Bum]

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

--Winston Churchill

[seerseenbyseein]

My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Trollope

[Leopard]

"The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel."

-Horace Walpole

[spikepipsqueak]

One of my favourite people on another forum has this as his tag. I don't know its origin.

"They tried to bury us. They did not know we were seeds."

[seerseenbyseein]

"The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel."

-Horace Walpole

Actually, it's the other way around.

[seerseenbyseein]

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.” Richard Yates

[AsierRed]

"We will not say that the greeks fight like heros, but that the heros fight like greeks."

WINSTON CHURCHILL, about greek resistance to italians and germans in WWII.

[Leopard]

Actually, it's the other way around.

How so?

P.S. Is there any way to get notified when someone replies to you?

[Danik 2016]

One of my favourite people on another forum has this as his tag. I don't know its origin.

"They tried to bury us. They did not know we were seeds."
The quote sounded familiar to me, I thought I had seen it on some refugee banner.
It has quite a story:
http://jhfearless.com/2014/11/they-tried-to-bury-us-they-didnt-know-we-were-seeds/

[spikepipsqueak]

Thank you, Danik 2016. Loved the sentiment before. It has even greater power, knowing the subtext.

[spikepipsqueak]

Piet Hein

THE ROAD TO WISDOM

The road to wisdom?—Well, it’s
plain and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again,
but less
and less
and less.