Benefactis Quotes & Sayings

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god. — Scott Alexander

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Holmes," I asked as we stepped into the street, "I realise the question sounds sophomoric, but do you find that there are aspects of yourself with which you feel most comfortable? I only ask out of curiosity; you needn't feel obliged to answer." He offered me his arm and, formally, I took it. "'Who am I?' you mean." He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. "Do you know what a fugue is?" "Are you changing the subject?" "No." I thought in silence for some distance before his answer arranged itself sensibly in my mind. "I see. Two discrete sections of a fugue may not appear related, unless the listener has received the entire work, at which time the music's internal logic makes clear the relationship. — Laurie R. King

A good heart cannot lye — George Herbert

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!] — Plautus

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. — Greg Egan

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity. — Beth Pattillo

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am. — Shakira

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious — Oscar Wilde

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. — Salman Rushdie