Quotations meme

"'Careful with fire' is good advice we know. 'Careful with words' is ten times doubly so."
-William Carleton

"First know who you are, then adorn yourself accordingly."
-Epictetus

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-Krishnamurti

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
-Bertolt Brecht

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
-Jerome K. Jerome

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
-Eric Hoffer