Ariyaratne Wale Quotes & Sayings

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. — Cleopatra

Menuret repeats an observation of Forestier's that clearly shows how an excessive loss of a humor, by drying out the vessels and fibers, may provoke a state of mania; this was the case of a young man who 'having married his wife in the summertime, became maniacal as a result of the excessive intercourse he had with her. — Michel Foucault

Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness. — Esther Perel

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity. — Austin O'Malley

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering. — Charles Soule

It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health. — Steven Magee

In today's society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung. — Abhijit Naskar

Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes. — Amanda Leigh

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto. — Barry Gibb

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; — Jane Austen

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.

{Referring to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics} — Albert Einstein

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes. — Lance Conrad