Mendax Quotes

#1. TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. XVIII. THE LOCHINVAR METHOD XIX. ON THE LAKE XX. A LESSON IN PICQUET

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Margot Kidder

#5. A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

#6. If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Kathy Acker

#8. Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

Maggie Q

#9. The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Mason Cooley

#10. In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Maria Montessori

#11. [...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre

Edmund Spenser

#12. I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

Andrew Lawrence

#13. We must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty to transcend words and concepts to be able to encounter reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. Pity it is we drowse too soon
Pity it is we fall asleep
Ere our song encompass the height
Ere our hand inherit the deep

Khalil Gibran

#15. Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: 'Don't believe her.'

The whole world closes around me, like an eyelid: For a moment, everything goes dark.

Lauren Oliver