2052704267 Quotes & Sayings

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light. — George Bernard Shaw

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries. — John Bunyan

Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow can seldom expel it altogether. Vanity in sorrow expresses itself by a desire to appear either stricken with grief or unhappy or brave: and this ignoble desire which we do not acknowledge but which hardly ever leaves us even in the deepest trouble robs our grief of its strength, dignity and sincerity. — Leo Tolstoy

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone. — John Green

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

WWBD? What would Buffy do? — Cherie Ullman

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war - the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers. — Ken Follett