Quotes capture my feelings

(tags quotation, blog, game, collecting)

On blogging:

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Quentin Crisp

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

H. Rider Haggard

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce

They always talk who never think.

Matthew Prior

On collecting (games, anime, goods, stuff, etc):

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

Robert Heinlein

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Bill Hoest

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Penn Jillette

(with linkie thanks to The Quotations Page)