Fusspots Quotes & Sayings

Shut the door, Wales. — Beau Brummell

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse. — Jack Benny

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. — Arthur Brisbane

My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain. — Jennifer Niven

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again. — Bo Sanchez

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is. — Max Lucado

I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do. — Jamie Johnson

My film career was always to support my theater career. — Kim Cattrall

God created animals. And they're loving; they're beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don't find my interest in animals weird or strange at all. — Michael Jackson

Where flowers bloom, you'll find your way, through the darkness and the flames, but beware the price that you must pay, for only the worthy will know my name. — Melissa Grey

A fish is a genius in water.
An eagle is a genius in air.
A fox is a genius on land.
A sage is a genius in life. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few. — Charles Baudelaire

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things. — Phil Keoghan