Eurydices Spouse Quotes & Sayings

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. — Franz Grillparzer

Holy hell, Derek Pratt was . . . cute. So fucking cute that it summoned a laugh from her throat. — Elle Kennedy

In 1822 freed American slaves (known as Americo-Liberians, or, colloquially, Congos) founded the colony at the instigation of the American Colonization Society, a coalition of slave owners and politicians whose motives are not hard to tease out. Even Liberia's roots are sunk in bad faith. Of the first wave of emigrants, half died of yellow fever. By the end of the 1820s, a small colony of three thousand souls survived. In Liberia they built a facsimile life: plantation-style homes, white-spired churches. — Zadie Smith

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. — Antonin Artaud

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. — Friedrich Nietzsche

True children of God experience pleasure in giving. — Sunday Adelaja

For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture. -Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon

Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival. — Congressman X

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding