Dizened Quotes & Sayings

Political movements always belong to the young. — Harvey Fierstein

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Teilhard merely seems to set the problem of man, as the utopian sees it, on lofty heights; yet, hi terminology, which mixes archeology, sociology, biology, astronomy, and a vulgarized theology, can, in fact, be translated at every turn into the language of collectivism and of totalitarian polices. — Thomas Molnar

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them. — Ron Paul

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. — Charles Lamb

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark? — Franz Kafka

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche