Paul Eldridge Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Paul Eldridge:

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Paul Eldridge

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Paul Eldridge

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Paul Eldridge

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

Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Paul Eldridge

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Paul Eldridge

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

Paul Eldridge