Arthur Leonard Griffith Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion. — Benjamin Franklin

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross. — Harriet Martineau

That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture. — Augustus Toplady

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. — Grover Norquist

The man has accumulated a repertoire of facial tics and blinks that demand nothing less than a complete musical score by Stravinsky. — Anonymous

Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live. — Kosho Uchiyama

Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order. The universe was trying to tell her something - was it, perhaps, to let go? — Wendy Francis

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. — Michelle Singletary

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals — Anna Brownell Jameson