Bashfully Silly Quotes & Sayings

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. — Epicurus

She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impressarios? — James Joyce

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is. — Tom Shields

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility. — Tavis Smiley

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver

Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest?" - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery — John J. Bonk

I have loved enough women to know how to paint.
If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet. — Sarah Ruhl