Being Graceful When Losing Quotes & Sayings

When you love someone, do it right and love them forever. Don't leave them wondering the whole time when it's going to run out or expire. — Nicole Williams

It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends. — Julia Scheeres

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony. — Anonymous

I lay curled in a fetal position one night, listening to my wife's voice. In the evenings, she just talked, speaking light into my darkness by reading verses to me. I needed a touchstone and she knew it, so she kept gently pointing toward Christ. She set aside her fears to speak into my own. — Ben Palpant

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand. — Tayeb Salih

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill

I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them. — W. Somerset Maugham

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it ... — Emily Bronte

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing. — Jill Paton Walsh

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope — Andrew Flintoff

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. — Judith Martin

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts. — Dave Ramsey

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures. — William Golding