The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

- Stanley Baldwin

That is entirely and painfully true. Perhaps I’ll write more about this later, when I am in a lighter mood. But for now I think I could not have expressed this idea better than that. It is cruelly ironic how life presents us with so many illusions of perfection, virtue, or wisdom, only for us to touch upon their true nature and discover that they are, as everything else, deeply flawed. Broken mirrors glued together to give a false impression of one beautiful reflection.

Mirroring my sentiments:

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

- Rebecca West

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

- Voltaire

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

- Albert Einstein

A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

- Helen Keller

“It is never perfect and always a chase”

- Tololy

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

- Jean Kerr

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

- Oscar Wilde

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

- Ambrose Bierce

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

- Cesar Chavez

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

-Erica Jong

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?…Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

-Oscar Wilde

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

- Aphra Behn

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

-Mario Puzo

-Charlotte Whitton

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.

-Aristotle

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-Albert Einstein

‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

-Anonymous

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.