1300s Europe Quotes & Sayings

Envy, like fire, soars upward. — Livy

When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for! — Jeremy Sisto

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

[Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. — Donald Barthelme

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time. — Doreen Virtue