Brayfield Gilbert Quotes & Sayings

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown. — Walter Moers

And yet this god, this old god from the Old World, somehow made her feel small. It was only for a moment, but Aphrodite blinked under the weight of his stare - his scrutiny. — Liz Meldon

I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships. — Christopher Titus

No one ever said life was fair — Nicholas Sparks

He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. — Henry Ward Beecher

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived. — Henry David Thoreau

Generations of British writers would look up to Roget as a kindred soul who could offer both emotional as well as intellectual sustenance. In the stage directions to Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie includes an homage to Roget: The night nursery of the Darling family, which is the scene of our opening Act, is at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury. We might have a right to place it where we will, and the reason Bloomsbury is chosen is that Mr. Roget once lived there. So did we in the days when his Thesaurus was our only companion in London; and we whom he has helped to wend our way through life have always wanted to pay him a little compliment. For Barrie, Roget's masterpiece was synonymous with virtue itself. To describe the one saving grace of the play's villain, Captain Hook, Barrie adds, "The man is not wholly evil--he has a Thesaurus in his cabin. — Joshua Kendall

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great. — Thomas A Kempis

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens. — Alain Ducasse

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries — Brian Kernighan

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression. — Walter Savage Landor

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. — Herb Caen

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first. — Chuck Feeney