Quotes for All
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in … Read more
…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice – and there is nothing you cannot get them to … Read more
I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners. Dylan Thomas
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? Dean Koontz
My idea of storytelling is – I wouldn’t say it’s religious but I would say it’s spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn’t do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision … Read more
I have always tried to use humor to help ever and hurt never, for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted. David Cross
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? D.T. Suzuki