Caluya Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects - hardly recognizable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles - made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".' — Edith Wharton

Women withhold sex, then men make it boring and soon their marriage is over. — Linda Alfiori

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! — Charlotte Bronte

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope. — George Stillman Hillard

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. — Anne Sullivan Macy