Succedaneum Quotes

#1. Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

William Wordsworth

#2. If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

#3. Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

#4. Knowledge may have its purposes,
but guessing is always
more fun than knowing.

W. H. Auden

#5. I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid with golden curls. Confronted with one, I feel the urge to step on him or drop things on him from a height.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

Shauna Niequist

#7. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. I've licked stamps who were more excited than you by that kiss.

Julie James

#9. To someone who grows up by the stockyards, that smell just smells like air. You don't know what a younger person might someday think of you, and whatever stench we still breathe in without noticing.

Laura Moriarty

#10. There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.

Alain De Botton

#11. If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Jeff Greene

#12. First, you're going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

Phillip C. McGraw

#13. I don't know about you, but I am planning to scream and run.

Benjamin