Quotes & Sayings About Disrespecting Elders

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. — Confucius

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess

Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life. — Steve Maraboli

The borrower is slave to the lender. — Anonymous

The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. — Eric Alterman

But the cinephile is ... a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. — Francois Truffaut

Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity. — Nicholas Dawidoff

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams? — George R R Martin

In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers. — Solomon Schechter

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones. — George Mikes

I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen? — Ilona Andrews

What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay. — Dan Ariely