Aristocratic Names Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing. — Melissa Febos

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. — William Shakespeare

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months. — Gordon Moore

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death. — Blaise Pascal

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express. — Susanne Katherina Langer

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability. — Cynthia Ozick

Learn to fail or fail to learn — Tal Ben-Shahar

I am a brother to dragons, a companion to owls. — Jane Lindskold

Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all. — Patrick Ness

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense. — Joel Edgerton

The word "snobbery" came into use for the first time in England during 1820s. It was said to have derived from the habit of many Oxford and Cambridge colleges of writing sine nobilitate (without nobility) , or "s.nob", next to the names of the ordinary students on examinations lists in order to distinguish them from their aristocratic peers. In the word's earliest days, a snob was taken to mean someone without high status, but it quickly assumed its modern and almost diametrically opposed meaning: someone offended by a lack of high status in others, a person who believes in a flawless equations between social rank and human worth — Alain De Botton

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. — Charles Dudley Warner

With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show. — John Oates