Quotes About Variety

Wait a minute. Can a general worldwide collector care more about some countries than others? Is there a Most-Favored Nation clause in his contract with philately? Ah. Wouldn't you know it? Now I've got a topic for next month's column. . .

Some are errors. There's Malta 20a, for example, the 2-1/2p dull blue; it's supposed to be surcharged "One Penny," but this variety has it "One Pnney." It's affordable, and visually remarkable, and I picked up my copy when it was offered in a block of four, with three non-erroneous companions.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

intellections have a use, don't think they don't: if the vine couldn't find a natural tree, what would become of it? if structure without life is meaningless, so is life without structure: we're going to make a dense, tangled trellis so lovely & complicated that every kind of variety will find a place in it or on it: you just be surprised: & forgive us: who mean song direct & fierce:

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

other people's condiments are depressing.

As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.

For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience.

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

É impossível continuar a fazer amor se a carpete for sempre a mesma.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.