Baldrian Quotes & Sayings

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster! — Benny Bellamacina

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid ... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865) — John Ruskin

You know the expression that love makes the world go 'round? That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love. Because there is magic in diversity. — Jessica Park

Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy. — Guy Davenport

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The purpose of man is in action not thought. — Thomas Carlyle

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty. — Orison Swett Marden

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you
yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women. — Augustine Of Hippo

It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor. — Brian Dennehy

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. — Ezra Cornell

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. — Nan Fairbrother

Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence. — Gerald M. Givens

I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg

If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky! — Mehmet Murat Ildan