Assembled Brands Quotes & Sayings

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth. — Christopher Marlowe

God is or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Let us weigh the gain and the lose in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two changes. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, lose nothing. Wager then without any hesitation that He is — Blaise Pascal

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth. — Herman Melville

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God takes on their cause. The Mosaic law of the Old Testament is filled with regulations to prevent and eliminate poverty. The poor were given the right to glean- to take produce from the unharvested edges of the fields, a portion of the tithes, and a daily wage. The law prevented permanent slavery by releasing Jewish bondsmen and women on the sabbatical and Jubilee year and forbade charging interest on loans. In one of his most tender acts, God made sure that the poor- the aliens, widows, and orphans- were all invited to the feasts. — Margaret Feinberg

Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating. — Debasish Mridha

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. — Peter Greenaway

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. — Solon

WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS. — Nicholas Eames

My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything. — Alyssa Milano

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. — Maya Angelou

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will? — James Stephens

As friends go it is less important to live. — Rutherford B. Hayes