Amicis Quotes & Sayings

Mother made sure her little kids were subjected to a strict routine. We were given a timetable which covered our every waking moment, copies of which were posted by our bedside, in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Story hour meant that mother would read us novels and short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde and Edmondo de Amicis. Soon we graduated to Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev. She read them to us in Chinese and I never realised until much later that the writers wrote them in different European languages. Comics were absolutely forbidden and so were Enid Blyton adventures and pop music ... Lee Cyn and I soon went to a primary school nearby ... After mother's rigorous timetable, school became fun and easy-going. — Ang Swee Chai

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.
[Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.] — Martial

What is working stain, does not soil. — Edmondo De Amicis

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. — Edmondo De Amicis

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display ... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art. — Gary Saul Morson

Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion. — Robert Silverberg

Draw a picture of your life in your heart and on paper. Now make it a reality. — Debasish Mridha

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. — Edmondo De Amicis

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

Love is by far the most important thing of all. — Emmet Fox

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period. — Kanye West

It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis. — Ted Cruz

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. — Robert D. Kaplan

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] — Juvenal

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Edmondo De Amicis

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.] — Sallust

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book. — Kimberly Willis Holt

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. — Thomas Jefferson

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good. — Carolina Herrera

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis

In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied. — Edmondo De Amicis

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love. — Edmondo De Amicis

He wakes up cursing himself, or cursing the job, or cursing life. — Henry Miller

The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes. — St. Clair McKelway

The school is a mother — Edmondo De Amicis

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again ... — Edmondo De Amicis

You'll never get dressed as quick as when you wake up next to a naked dead chick — Ron Bennington