Elexa Devices Quotes & Sayings

Some men, when they do you a kindness, at once demand the payment of gratitude from you; others are more modest than this. However, they remember the favor, and look upon you as their debtor in a manner. A third sort shall scarce know what they have done. These are much like a vine, which is satisfied by being fruitful in its kind, and bears a bunch of grapes without expecting any thanks for it. A fleet horse or greyhound do not make a noise when they have done well, nor a bee neither when she has made a little honey. And thus a man that has done a kindness never proclaims it, but does another as soon as he can, just like a vine that bears again the next season. Now we should imitate those who are so obliging as hardly to reflect on their beneficence (v. 6). — Marcus Aurelius

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself — R.C. Sproul

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle.

By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. — Liza Minnelli

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush ... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things. — Antoni Tapies

It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself. — Christie Golden

You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you? — Mo Mowlam

Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy. — George R R Martin

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all? — Lawrence Auster