Colonial Elegance Quotes & Sayings

Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you — Lin-Manuel Miranda

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven." — F Scott Fitzgerald

The chase of gain is rich in hate — Confucius

But one thing I've learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you. — Nathan Filer

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. — Henry Cloud

After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain. — Amy Tan

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus. — Laurent A. Daloz

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon

I'm just a slow-emotion replay
of somebody I used to be. — Matt Johnson

Painting is silent poetry. — Plutarch

A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown. — W.B.Yeats

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less. — Billy Collins

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong, — John Hiatt