“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”
Catherine the Great
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
Albert Einstein
“For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently”
William Shakespeare
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
Theophile Gautier
“Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers”
Arthur Helps
