Quotes Part 2

And so…time for weekly quotes…

1. “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
2. “Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” – Samuel Johnson
3. “Don’t forget that I cannot see myself — that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.” – Jacques Rigaut
4. “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” – Rose Kennedy
5. “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” – Euripides
6. “When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness.” – Euripides
7. “The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
8. “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” – (attributed to) William Shakespeare
9. “With foxes, we must play the fox.” – Thomas Fuller
10. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else.” – Ernest Hemingway