Abreuvoir Pour Quotes & Sayings

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot

Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who hated and belittled each other's learning. For one of them denied the existence of the gods and the other was a believer.
One day the two met in the market-place, and amidst their followers they began to dispute and to argue about the existence or the non-existence of the gods. And after hours of contention they parted.
That evening the unbeliever went to the temple and prostrated himself before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
And the same hour the other learned man, he who had upheld the gods, burned his sacred books. For he had become an unbeliever. — Kahlil Gibran

I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of
like swimming. — Sandra Harner

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. — Bertolt Brecht

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. — James Madison

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die. — Gabriel Marcel

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Want to lose weight? Do more than just think about it. You don't need to hold off while you keep searching for an abundance of motivation to lose weight.

What you need is an abundance of action. — Shawn Weeks

Uhh... I mean, uh, sorry you had to see that, but you know how it is when you get those, uh, manly urges, and you just gotta kill somethin'...fix things, uh, cook outdoors... — Mulan

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. — Ron Perlman

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy