Eaglesham Glasgow Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach. — Henry Cloud

Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving. — Mercedes Lackey

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand. — Madame De Stael

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing. — Eleanor Catton

If I can fool a bug ... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs. — E.B. White

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. — Paul D. Boyer

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come. — Dallin H. Oaks

But silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say
to them silence is simple and easy ... — Maxim Gorky

They have a plentiful lack of wit. — William Shakespeare

No one had ever told her about the ingredients of life, only of biscuits. — Jonathan Odell