25 Quotes by Paul Eldridge

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.