Quotes from Paul Eldridge

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.