All But Forgotten Oldies Quotes & Sayings

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else. — Robert Dowling

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. — John Dewey

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. — John Major

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. — John James Ingalls

We have not fully recovered from the Dark Ages: the insecurity that excites greed, the fear that fosters cruelty, the poverty that breeds filth and ignorance, the filth that generates disease, the ignorance that begets credulity, superstition, occultism - these still survive amongst us; and the dogmatism that festers into intolerance and Inquisitions only awaits opportunity or permission to oppress, kill, ravage, and destroy. In this sense modernity is a cloak put upon medievalism, which secretly remains; and in every generation civilization is the laborious product and precarious obligating privilege of an engulfed minority. The — Will Durant

None of them noticed the girl covered in ash as she
snaked along their gardens, setting fire to their begonias. — Veronica Bane

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. — Francine Prose

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. — Hesiod

Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge. — Laurie Graham

Everyone thinks magic is something different. — Jim Butcher

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week. — Christian Scott

I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men. — Nicole Williams