Ducal Coronet Quotes & Sayings

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. — Shirley Hufstedler

Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction — Heinrich Harrer

No matter where you go, you'll find that people in high positions like to make themselves look good. A general, for example, must always be a hero, because who will respect him if he is a coward? I've traveled to many countries and heard many stories, and a victory in battle is always the general's, even when it's won by the hard work of ordinary soldiers. And when time passes, these stories often develop into legends. — Nahoko Uehashi

And if they don't like it if you use those words and they stop moving put their hand on your mouth say "Don't say thatdon't use that wordI don't like it " if they say they don't want to try being handcuffed to the towel rack in the bathroom they're never any good in bed. They may be nice. They may be witty charming etc. etc. They may be doing something for women's liberation (over what? over whom?). But they're never any good in bed. — Nic Kelman

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. — Seneca The Younger

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards. — Thomas Hardy

My eyes were heavy, and my awareness hung on by the thinnest of threads, but I thought I heard him mutter. "I think I will keep you. — Amy Harmon

Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You're innocent when you dream. — Tom Waits

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things. — Bryant McGill

I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt- deep down I know this- someone who by his own admission is completely fucked up. — E.L. James

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others. — Aesop

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. — Agnes Repplier

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life. — Stefan Kieszling