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Conformity & Nonconformity
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
-Bill Vaughan
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Opinion
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Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-Bertrand Russell
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Pleasure
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All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
-Epicurus
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Emotions
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Planet
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Ugliness/Ugly
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It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
-Colette, Journey For Myself1971, Beauties
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Ugliness/Ugly
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Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
-Marguerite Blessington, The Confessions Of An Elderly Lady 1838
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Travel
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.
-Bertrand Russell
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Age
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Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
-Thomas Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ c. 1420, Book 1, Chapter 23
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Drinking
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Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
-Truman Capote, Answered Prayers (1975)
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Death
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There were no last words. His wife was with him to the end.
-Les Dawson
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