Dandy Mott Quotes & Sayings

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. — Connie Zweig

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else. — Jon Turteltaub

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes. — Hugh Jackman

I thank them for the same service. — M. Scott Peck

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it. — Harriet Lerner

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper. — Lemony Snicket

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away. — Lykke Li

The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind. — Richard Ramirez

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus? — William Rowan Hamilton

Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless. — Aristotle.

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage. — George Carlin

It's a good thing to read a lot. It's a good thing to write a lot. The best thing to do is to live a lot. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Make a fool of yourself. Watch other people make fools of themselves. Believe something stupid and then realize you've been tricked. Feel embarrassed. Be brave and bold. Then be cowardly and pathetic. Give a damn about the world outside yourself. Have some very dark nights. It's all good. You'll use all of it. — Michael Grant

A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body. — Walter Benjamin