Edmonstone Estate Quotes

#1. Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

Epicurus

#2. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

#3. Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Friedrich Schiller

#4. This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.

Don DeLillo

#5. Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#6. I want to be a society vampire, you see.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:

Charles Darwin

#8. Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same. - ARISTOTLE

Stacy Schiff

#9. Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

Raheel Farooq

#10. Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.

Richard N. Bolles

#11. This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Gregory Maguire