Cortinas Italian Quotes & Sayings

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda. — John Dewey

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Let your words heal, not wound. — Germany Kent

I'm capable of making you capable. — Kathryn Perez

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation ... to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. — Samuel Johnson

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. — Cassandra Peterson

We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural. — Allan Sandage

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. — Joey Santiago

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. — Steve Irwin

Live life today like there is no coffee tomorrow." The — Meik Wiking

He just couldn't believe that he could do it. But what he didn't know was whether he couldn't believe it or that he didn't want to believe it. — Brian Cleary

His cigarettes helped mark the passage of time, especially on days that seemed all sun and sky ... The dependable dwindling of his cigarette supply reassured him that he hadn't been left out here, that eventually he would have to ride into town and things would still be there, that the world hadn't stopped whirling. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. — Arthur Schnitzler

All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima — Ernest Hemingway,