Farang Quotes & Sayings

Unlike every other farang in Thailand, I never did get involved with bargirls. I was looking for a partner. Not a professional. — John Cameron Smith

If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A child looks up when he's walking with his father, and the same should be true for the Christian. — Billy Graham

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections? — Steven Wright

Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,
Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign
Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,
And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape,
The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,
Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue,
There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,
Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace,
And when accomplish'd in her wayward school,
Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool. — William Cowper

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. — Neville Goddard

We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset? — John Burdett

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how — Joel Plaskett

If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge

Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of virile youth against Hudson's superior rank and thus restore his ego after that humiliating reprimand. — John Burdett

Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow. — Dennis Lehane

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient. — Alan Cooper

That pretty much describes the life of a foreign man living in Bangkok. Except instead of pressing a lever, he's digging into his wallet for a few more baht. The same principle is at work, though. The same mindless obedience to their pleasure centers. Yet if pleasure were the path to happiness then the farang, the foreigner, in Thailand would achieve bliss, and so would the Canadian rats. Yet neither has. Happiness is more than animal pleasure. — Eric Weiner

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip. — Andrew Davies

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — Anton Chekhov

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A.J.P. Taylor