understanding Quotes

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

First appearance deceives many.