Alex Mahone Best Quotes & Sayings

Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid. — Epictetus

Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance — Julian Barnes

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. — Anonymous

He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave, called, "All right, Peter? Good weekend?" to the taxi driver, who knew him well and considered him a lovely man, and was free.
"Back to the hard life," he said to Peter, and stretched out his legs.
Back to the real life, he meant. The real world where there were no children lurking under tables, no wives wiping their noses on the ironing, no guinea pigs on the lawn, nor hamsters in the bedrooms, and no paper bags full of leaking tomato sandwiches. — Hilary McKay

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. — Jean Rostand