Chatzky Yiddish Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing. — Epicurus

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Demanding immediate results is an aspect of unsteadiness of mind or laziness. — Matthieu Ricard

You don't know how much I need such a friend," she said. "My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves. And the other women - my best friends - well, they use me or abuse me; but they don't care a straw what happens to me. I've been about too long - people are getting tired of me; they are beginning to say I ought to marry. — Edith Wharton

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. — Lois Capps

The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. — George R R Martin

To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly, — David Finkel

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. — Winston Churchill

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life — Nicholas Sparks

Dream your sacred dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell — John Jakes

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. — David Lynch

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result. — Jack Ma

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books. — Kami Garcia