Gaieties Quotes & Sayings

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. — Nicolas Chamfort

We were gasoline rushing for a lit match. We bared our teeth. Balled fists. — Nova Ren Suma

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. — Margaret Thatcher

The virtuous to those mansions go
Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
Where, leading up a jocund band,
Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
Pipes softest music through the vales,
And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
With velvet carpet spread the ground;
With livelier blush where roses bloom,
And every shrub expires perfume. — Charles Churchill

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk. — Eraldo Banovac

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state. — Mitt Romney

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. — Ezra Taft Benson

Already he felt her absence from these skies: on the beach he could only remember the sun-torn flesh of her shoulder; at Tarmes he crushed out her footprints as he crossed the garden; and now the orchestra launching into the Nice Carnival Song, an echo of last year's vanished gaieties, started the little dance that went on all about her. In a hundred hours she had come to possess all the world's dark magic; the blinding belladonna, the caffein converting physical into nervous energy, the mandragora that imposes harmony. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself. — Isaac Ambrose

I sincerely hope your Christmas ... may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings ... — Jane Austen

The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad. — Amit Ray

There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about it. For better or worse, I was head over ears in love ... — Mary Stewart

The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best. — Edgar Guest

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil. — Michael Drayton

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? — Lewis Carroll

Don't think it, ink it. — Mark Victor Hansen