Chaucer Canterbury Tales Famous Quotes & Sayings

Modesty is humility expressed in dress. — C.J. Mahaney

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art. — Albert Camus

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. — Lisa See

If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize. — Lynne McTaggart

Dolls are safe companions. — Louisa May Alcott

When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot. — Jim Geoghan

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain. — Joshua Edward Smith

Your greatest actions are those that meet another's greatest need. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. — Louis Nizer

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider. — Pauline Kael

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror. — Melika Dannese Lux

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there. — Johnny Marr

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he'll have a moment's peace. — Heather King