Clasp Envelopes Quotes & Sayings

Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My heart is pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. — Beryl Markham

I may ... surprise you - but I shall not deceive you. — Eugene Talmadge

Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved. — Louis-Joseph Papineau

The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself. — Ernst Junger

I tell those stories, but they're not what I want to tell. I only know how I want people to feel when I tell them. It wasn't Indians that were important, nor adventures, nor even getting out here. It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast. And I was the head. It was westering and westering. Every man wanted something for himself, but the big beast that was all of them wanted only westering. — John Steinbeck

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals. — Richard Whately

For every 1 fan I have 20 haters, once I can reach 1000 haters for 1 fan, I know I've made it. — Behdad Sami

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid. — Carl Hagelin