5ore Quotes & Sayings

We who have lived long under the Shadow may surely listen to echoes from a land untroubled by it? — J.R.R. Tolkien

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it. — James Agate

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) — Virgil

There is a widespread notion that just passing through death transforms human character. Discipleship is not needed. Just believe enough to "make it." But I have never been able to find any basis in scriptural tradition or psychological reality to think this might be so. What if death only forever fixes us as the kind of person we are at death? What would one do in heaven with a debauched character or a hate-filled heart? — Dallas Willard

He is lifeless that is faultless. — Voltaire

How can I find a way out
when I do not know how
to begin to resist? — Shalom Freedman

Never say anything bad about a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. By then he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to. — Garrison Keillor

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. — Maria Edgeworth

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike.
That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . .
Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike. — Ufuoma Apoki

The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song. — Kalidasa