Random Quotes - The Quotations Page

I can't resist. Here's a meme that starts with Pilgrim and then goes to herein order to complete it. There's probably a step or two in between.

Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
[somewhere, I am Thomas Pynchon, or Rick Powers, or Borges, or Pele, or Giggs, or Richard Thompson or Ani DiFranco or....or...]

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
[how could I resist after a long, long day of meetings, syllabi and roster instruction?]

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
[still smarting after the World Cup]

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
[why these god-fearing people are afeared of reason I'll never understand]

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
[for obvious reasons]