Donzele Quotes & Sayings

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. — Mark Twain

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to — Lorraine Heath

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true. — Mark Twain

I'm a big Bond fan. — Sondre Lerche

It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God. — Ambrose Of Milan

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate. — Mohsin Hamid

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago. — Tracy McMillan

Frankincense allows us to remain focused on the tasks at hand by keeping us calm, cool and collected when chaos is all around us. — Leon Green

He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was in a sense the ultimate act of selfishness since it left behind untold and endless suffering for those who had witnessed it and been unable to do anything to prevent it. And so I remained alive. — Mary Balogh

When gold replaced silver as a measure of value, the same name was applied according to the ratio between the values of silver and gold, to perhaps 1-15th of a pound of gold. The word pound, as a money-name, thus becomes differentiated from the same word as a weight-name.[70] (3) The debasing of money carried on for centuries by kings and princes to such an extent that, of the original weights of the coins, nothing in fact remained but the names.[71] — Karl Marx

Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that. — Dorothy Allison