Fabulously Flawless Permanent Quotes & Sayings

Erkel's fate will be lightened. From the moment of his arrest he either maintained silence or did his best to pervert the truth. Not one word of repentance has been extracted from him so far. And yet even in the most severe judges he has awakened a certain sympathy for himself — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Magic is not the solution to every problem, but it sure helps in eleven out of ten cases. — Patrick Thomas

Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere - not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. Pap-fed flabs! — Sinclair Lewis

The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood. — Mal Peet

It is an old and wise caution, that when our neighbor's house is on fire, we ought to take care of our own. For tho', blessed be God, I live in a government where liberty is well understood, and freely enjoy'd; yet experience has shown us all that bad precedent in one government is soon set up for an authority in another; and therefore I cannot but think it mine, and every honest man's duty that we ought at the same time to be upon our guard against power, wherever we apprehend that it may affect ourselves or our fellow subjects.
I should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land, where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations, set on foot by the government, to deprive a people of their right to remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary attempts of men in power. — Andrew Hamilton

Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love. — Edith Hamilton

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition? — Phil Silvers

You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light. — Truth Devour

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

And if the gods were to give me a choice between living a better life, having not met them, or a wretched life with the slightest chance of crossing their path, then I'd pick the wretched life over and over again. — Melina Marchetta