Edward Dahlberg quotes

" Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. " # Optimism # Simplicity # Mistakes

" So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. " # Vice # Truth # Virtue

" There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. " # Advice

" Every decision you make is a mistake. " # Decisions

" A strong foe is better than a weak friend. " # Enemies # Friends and Friendship # Weakness

" Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. " # Failure # Success # Death and Dying

" Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. " # Genius # Freedom # Power

" Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. " # Ambition # Freedom # Power

" Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. " # Humankind # Writers and Writing # Wisdom

" Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Sex # Love