Benchers Bar Quotes & Sayings

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional prize fighter and let my fists do the talking only inside the ring. I don't want to comment on Chisora's psychological issues. — Wladimir Klitschko

I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser. — Lisa Caputo

A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry. — Taylor Swift

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it — Cormac McCarthy

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved. — Charlie Kaufman

And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot. — Sam Pink

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! — Charles Spurgeon

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind.
"Ah," said Eric, "Good."
"No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement."
"Oh. — Terry Pratchett

I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities? — James K. Morrow

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. — Homer

If you love music, you can play music. — Michael Nesmith

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures. — Jordi Molla

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments. — David Keirsey

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way. — Sam Abell