Blanes Costa Quotes & Sayings

Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike.... — P.G. Wodehouse

41 Never exaggerate. It isn't wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on your judgment. By exaggerating, you squander your praise and reveal a lack of knowledge and taste. Praise awakens curiosity, which begets desire, and later, when the goods seem overpriced, as often happens, expectation feels cheated and avenges itself by running down the praised and the praiser. The prudent show restraint, and would rather fall short than long. True eminences are rare, so temper your esteem. To overvalue something is a form of lying. It can ruin your reputation for good taste, and - even worse - for wisdom. — Baltasar Gracian

As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them. I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there must be quite a lot of fellows who have to press their own clothes themselves and haven't got anybody to bring them tea in the morning, and so on. It was rather a solemn thought, don't you know. I mean to say, ever since then I've been able to appreciate the frightful privations the poor have to stick. — P.G. Wodehouse

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations. — Jack White

The true world
we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nikki Giovanni, 'We love because it's the only true adventure. — Tracy Ewens

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated. — Mark Teixeira

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it. — Tom Berenger

Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do. — Kathy Sierra

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning. — Silvana De Mari

Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well. — Seneca.