Oxymoron Quotes – Page 7

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Author: Robertson Davies

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

Author: Jean-Francois De La Harpe

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Author: Peter Drucker

Civilizations commonly die from the excessive development of certain characteristics which had at first contributed to their success.

Author: Rene Dubos

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Author: Epicurus (Third Century B.C.)

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Author: Clifton Fadiman

They that endeavor to abolish vice, destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Author: Sir Thomas Browne

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Author: Edmund Burke

We have three kinds of friends: those who love us, those who are indifferent to us, and those who hate us.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

Author: Jane Addams

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Author: Francis Bacon

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

Author: Blaise Pascal

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

Author: Sophocles

To have enough is good luck, to have more than enough is harmful. This is true of all things, but especially of money.

Author: Chuang-Tzu

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments.

Author: Joseph Addison

Found a Society of Honest Men, and all the thieves will join it.

Author: Alain (Emile Chartier)

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Author: Aristotle (Fourth Century B.C.)

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does more good or harm.

Author: Walter Bagehot

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Author: Max Beerbohm

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Author: William Blake

It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.

Author: William Blake

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up.

Author: Jean Paul Richter

Change really becomes a necessity when we try not to do it.

Author: Anne Wilson Schaef

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Author: Logan Pearsall Smith

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it ends.

Author: Marcelene Cox

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

Author: Oriana Fallaci

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Author: Andre Gide

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

Author: William James

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Author: Leon Trostky

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Author: Leon Trostky

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Author: Mark Twain

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Author: Georg Hegel

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Author: James Michener

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Author: Aldous Huxley

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Author: Montaigne

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Author: George Bernard Shaw

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer.

Author: Thomas Merton

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Author: Carl Becker

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Author: Albert Einstein

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Author: William Cowper

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Author: Alice B. Toklas

Health food makes me sick.

Author: Calvin Trillin

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Author: Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Author: Mark Twain