Eddie Griswald Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days. — Jeff Kinney

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus

but a man of pleasure like yourself ought to know that all who are in the flower of youth do somehow or other raise a pang or emotion in a lover's breast, and are thought by him to be worthy of his affectionate regards. Is not this a way which you have with the fair: one has a snub nose, and you praise his charming face; the hook-nose of another has, you say, a royal look; while he who is neither snub nor hooked has the grace of regularity: the dark visage is manly, the fair are children of the gods; and as to the sweet 'honey pale,' as they are called, what is the very name but the invention of a lover who talks in diminutives, and is not averse to paleness if appearing on the cheek of youth? In a word, there is no excuse which you will not make, and nothing which you will not say, in order not to lose a single flower that blooms in the spring-time of youth. If — Plato

Those who love themselves too much
have very little love leftover for others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive. — Dalai Lama

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder. — Anais Nin

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory. — Francis Bacon

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will. — Tom Robbins

Because I might not always have you but I'll have the feeling of you for the rest of my life — Pleasefindthis

Whatever ... you pretend ... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved. (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 15:14). — Joseph Alleine

Men study science as god not the God of science. — Adrian Rogers

I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there would be no shops and I would kill myself. — Frankie Boyle

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way.
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction. — Paulo Coelho

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King. — Terry Pratchett