Jacques Offenbach Quotes

#1. Young people ... have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing
not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness
so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Louise J. Kaplan

#2. I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

Edwyn Collins

#3. POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

Walter Isaacson

#5. By skilfully training a hunting animal, by closely associating with it, by identifying with it, you might be allowed to experience all your vital, sincere desires, even your most bloodthirsty ones, in total innocence. You could be true to yourself.

Helen Macdonald

#6. I am always doing what I thought I couldn't do because I Thought I might learn something.
Henri Marcel French Artist

Brenda H. Sedgwick

#7. The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration ... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Frank Harris

#8. There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

T. S. Eliot

#9. Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson