Quotes by Paul Eldridge

• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
• We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
• Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
• In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
• History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.