When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.


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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
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That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER
Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD