Bentsingko Quotes & Sayings

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful. — Alexander McCall Smith

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly. — Matthew Of Edessa

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. — Joachim Du Bellay

Unfulfilled Wish
A woman in Atzbach was murdered by her husband because, in his opinion, she had carried the wrong child with her to safety from their burning house. She had not saved their eight-year old son, for whom the man had special plans, but had saved their daughter, who was not loved by the husband. When the husband was asked, in the District Court in Wels, what plans he had had for his son, who had been completely consumed by the fire, the husband replied that he had intended him to be an anarchist and a mass murderer of dictatorships and thus a destroyer of the state. — Thomas Bernhard

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — James C. Collins

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid! — Adolf Hitler

God doesn't keep us from trouble; He keeps us through it. — Pam Hillman

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. — Ambrose Bierce

We may not be of the same blood, but we are brothers. Every Warrior here is my brethren. Doona carry your burdens alone. They will eventually bury you. — Donna Grant

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! — Michel De Montaigne

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. — Caroline Knapp

I remember reading somewhere that you have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. But I don't think it's true. I think you have to learn to forget yourself before you can love someone else. At least I seem to forget about myself when I'm with you. — Ryan Winfield