Quotes about Paradox
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
— Aldous Huxley
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
— St. Augustine
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
— John Bunyan
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
— Ronald Reagan
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
— Laurence Sterne
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo