Quotes About Contrast

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.