Chenard Walcker Quotes & Sayings

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. — John Hay

An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all. — Brent Weeks

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous. — Dante Alighieri

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. — Marlene Dietrich

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. — Woodrow Wilson

It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye. — Danielle Steel

All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position. — James Lee Burke