31bf3856ad364e35 Quotes & Sayings

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. — Frederick C. Beiser

Doing Good to others sometimes Brings Bad to you — DK Publishing

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian! — W. Ian Thomas

It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago."
"The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'"
"Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition."
"Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit. — Prosper Merimee

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras. — William Buckland

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. — Kate Seredy

The vocabulary for discussing smells, tastes and textures, the primary characteristics of wine, seems paltry compared with the far better developed lexicon for sights and sounds. — Anonymous

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail. — Jose Bernardo

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. — Norman Cousins

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them. — Spencer Johnson

If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice.
Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders.
"Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly.
A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread. — Margery Sharp

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be. — Elie Wiesel

It is meaningless to do the work of God without putting the love of God in it. — Sunday Adelaja