Paul Eldridge Quotes

• We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

  Paul Eldridge

  Life, Yoke, Mourn

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• To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

  Paul Eldridge

  Character, Men, Sea

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• In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

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  Inspirational, Learning, Spiders

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• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

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  Forgiveness, Genius, Stones

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• Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

  Paul Eldridge

  Men, Ideas, Clear

  The Reader's Digest, Volume 82, February 1963.

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• It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

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  Men, Creative, Foolish

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• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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  Self Esteem, Trials, Crime

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• Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

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  Life, Death, Tombstone

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• For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

  Paul Eldridge

  Believe, Tin, Crowns

  Paul Eldridge (1960). “Seven against the night”

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• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

  Paul Eldridge

  Past, Bird, Triumph

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

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  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

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  Stuff, Aphorism, Endeavor

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• History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

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  History, Transformation, Quiet

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• A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

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  Men, Treats, Position

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• We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

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  Objectivity, Prejudice, Ornaments

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2098

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• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

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  Jealousy, Passion, Love Is

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• Many a necklace becomes a noose.

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  Necklaces, Nooses

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• Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

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  Trying, Shepherds, Logic

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2194

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• Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

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  Quotation Marks, Bigs, Theft

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• Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

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  Gold, Consumerism, Avarice

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• Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

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  Lying, Reading, Resurrection

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• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

  Paul Eldridge

  Discovery, Claims, Sole

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