History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
- Paul Eldridge
History, Silent, Tumultuous
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
- Paul Eldridge
Discovery, Sole, Profundity, Claim
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
- Paul Eldridge
Universe, Endeavor, Stuff, Aphorism
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge
Love, Less, Merits, Understood
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
- Paul Eldridge
Truth, Truth Is, Many, Strangled
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
- Paul Eldridge
Committed, Brought, Would, Escape
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
- Paul Eldridge
New, Build, Cast, Stones
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
Die, Idea, Provided, Ready
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
- Paul Eldridge
Past, Feathers, Triumphs, Praises
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
- Paul Eldridge
Living, Salvation, Only, Burying
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