Chemenensky Quotes & Sayings

Count Chemenensky was quietly gnawing on something, which, upon further inspection, appeared to be his own tattered clothing. Mon Dieu. — Robin Bridges

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition. — C. A. Bartol

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us
— Edgar Cayce

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was. — Shirley Hufstedler

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job. — Perry Brass

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours. — Nelson Mandela

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am. — Dionysius I Of Syracuse

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum. — James Alan Gardner

The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed. — Robin Sloan

His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.

Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all because they spelled his happiness--and his eternal sorrow. — Natalia Marx

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. — Thomas Jefferson