Edmund Spencer

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

I think; therefore I am.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.