Charlie Rivel Quotes & Sayings

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today. — L. Neil Smith

Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive. — Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living - to be able to get past the physical stuff. — Wendy Higgins

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. — John Henry Newman

A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart. — Sarah Josepha Hale

My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?"
"I don't care," he said, and kissed me. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Know the great men of your age. — Baltasar Gracian

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue. — Victoria Wood

What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound? — Robin Wall Kimmerer

I feel like I've won the tournament. — Ben Crenshaw

so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts ... — Elisabeth Elliot

The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. — Daniel Quinn

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine. — Ali MacGraw

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely. — Jane Lotter