The Quotes
Pei likes to collect bits of wisdom which are shared randomly in the footer of each page. Here is the complete collection. Let Pei know if there are any incorrect attributions or misquotes!
Albert Camus
“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Bertrand Russell
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- from Conquest of Happiness
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
- from Marriage And Morals
Carl Jung
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Charles Caleb Colton
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Charles M. Schulz
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
Charles de Gaulle
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
Erich Fromm
“Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'
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Euripides
“Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass.
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Fran Lebowitz
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
“Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares into you.”
“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”
Gary Lineker
“Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.”
Groucho Marx
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ”
Gustave Flaubert
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
John Beene
“Love is a lot like food. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. Sometimes it's hot, sometimes it's cold. Sometimes it's sweet, sometimes it's sour. But no matter what it was or how it was, it always comes out in the end as shit.”
“Love is just another four letter word that should be used only sparingly and never mentioned in polite conversation.”
“I do not trust love. It is, after all, just the byproduct of a biological drive.”
“Going forward is no good if it's in the wrong direction.”
“Never argue with a man with an ice pick. He might throw ice cubes at you.”
“The amount I like a dog is inversely related to how far I can kick it.”
“It only takes one to fall but two to love.”
“A triangle is the most stable geometric form - except in love.”
“Were we ever lovers? No. I never had the fortune, and she never had the misfortune.”
“It's not right or wrong - it's right or left.”
“oh, how embarrassing. I believe I am in uh, limerence with you.”
“That's the nice thing about friendship. Sometimes you give, sometimes you take, but no one's keeping count.”
“No, no, she and I are just friends for now, but I am interviewing for a promotion.”
“Be here now.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
“Shyness is when you turn your head from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”
- from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Kurt Cobain
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Lao Tsu
“He who conquers others is strong, but he who conquers himself is truly mighty.”
- from Tao Te Ching
Leo Buscaglia
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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Lily Tomlin
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Lou Holtz
“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Matt Groening
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
Pearl Jam
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun - in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be mine?”
- from Black
Pei
“Life ain't easy, being a marshmallow.”
Robert Haas
“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
Roy M. Goodman
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.”
Rusty Wilson
“It never amazes me how much more love comes to one the less one demands it.”
Sam Ewing
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.”
Searle
“We're only stardust.”
- from Sunshine
Stanislaw Lec
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
Stephen
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts.”
- from The Last Kiss
Steve Jobs
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.”
Terry Pratchett
“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Thomas Huxley
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.”
Watts
“Break his heart, and I'll break your face.”
- from Some Kind of Wonderful
e.e. cummings
“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”
i.alone
“It's quite adorable. Your pain, I mean.”
unknown
“The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.”
“Love is the magnification of the differences between one person and everyone else.”
“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of how to use people and love things.”
“Love is like quicksand, the deeper you fall in, the harder it is
to get out.
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“Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?”
“If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.”
“He who knows his destiny knows no fear.”
“Better to be a lion for one day than to be a sheep for all your life.”