Frivolously Def Quotes & Sayings

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free. — Ruta Sepetys

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. — Octavio Paz

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. — Aravind Adiga

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. — Samuel Johnson

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin. — Joe Chung

Trust the tide, Gracie. Trust the tide. — Justin Somper

Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster

The whole world knows that I am a Madridista by heart; White until the death. — Iker Casillas

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India. — Phil Gramm

I swallow any sort of apology.
"screwing your neighbor."
There. Said it. React, okay?
pregnant pause becomes three
weeks overdue. Four weeks.
Time for a C-section. What?
Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry.
Are you sure ... ? — Ellen Hopkins

I ALEXANDRA is very frightening, very intense. It will keep the reader on the edge of his/her seat. — William M. O'Brien Jr.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age. — Rodney Crowell