Ribeyrolles Carbine Quotes

#1. O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

William Shakespeare

#2. Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Orson Welles

#3. In this way, more information and more openness can, perversely, feed more mistrust and more wild speculation: The more we know, the more we realize just how in the dark we truly are.

Christopher L. Hayes

#4. The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Georg Brandes

#5. Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it.
Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

Denis Johnson

#6. Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

Margaret Mead

#7. Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. All existence for a man turned away from the eternal is but a vast mime under the mask of the absurd. Creation is the great mime ... it is itself an absurd phenomenon.

Albert Camus

#9. A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.

William Bailey

#10. Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Avicenna