Franciszek Lessel Quotes & Sayings

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go. — Pericles

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power. — John Milton

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. — Douglas Coupland

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto. — David Letterman

Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations. — Paul Driessen

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray."
"Dorian who?"
I sighed. "Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know."
"Sure thing, Gumdrop."
I grimaced. "I take that back. Let's stick with Grey. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce. — Anne Nesbet