Costain Quotes & Sayings

It is well to pray when the troubles perch and your pillow is cheated of sleep. It is well at all times, even when there are no troubles and no petitions to be made. — Thomas B. Costain

Silence is golden, but sometimes invisibility is golder. — Hazel Felleman

Israel ... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world — Martin Luther King Jr.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer — Thomas Merton

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. — Kurt Cobain

History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the builders have had the better of it. The miracles they accomplished in stone are still standing and still beautiful, even with the disintegration of so many centuries on them, but the battlefields where great warriors died are so encroached upon by modern villas and so befouled by the rotting remains of motorcars and the staves of oil barrels that they do not always repay a visit. — Thomas B. Costain

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life. — Mardy Grothe

Lindy became an instructor at an upscale gym, where she taught aerobic pole dancing — Joe Hill

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible. — Virginia Henley