Ascolese Associates Quotes & Sayings

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. — Wilbur Smith

The woman wants the man to love her for ever and ever. She deliberately shuts her eyes to those two terrible enemies - Time and Change. Men are more realistic. They know that all things pass. And yet, it's precisely out of this tension between the two sexes that civilization has evolved. Had this not been present, man would have become extinct like the many animals who were overtaken by this fate. Why do I say this? Because I see this "push" and "pull" as masculine and feminine principles, respectively, both of which are essential for the survival of the human race. — Khushwant Singh

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.
I know you didn't.
I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.
I know it. There's hard lessons in this world.
What's the hardest?
I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
Yessir. — Cormac McCarthy

Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something. — J. Robert Lennon

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted. — Lilian Jackson Braun

If you will librate people from there fake rituals, they will become your retinue. — Ayush Pratap

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war. — George Washington

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap. — Jerry Jones

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. — Moby

Somewhere along the line you quit etching your kills on the side of your fighter. — L.E. Thomas

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion. — Samuel Johnson

The Gospel has never changed. — Billy Graham