sigmund freud quotes

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ~Author Unknown



Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy



Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb



Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. ~William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815



For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney



I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ~Mark Twain



Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. ~Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951



How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank



We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)



As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~Marcus Aurelius



The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie



Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. ~Russell B. Long



Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord Chesterfield



A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will



The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ~David Brinkley



Louise: "How did you get here?"



With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson