Gangetic Basin Quotes & Sayings

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. — Abdelkader El Djezairi

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' — Edward Carey

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time. — Demetri Martin

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one! — Thomas Hardy

speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air, — Charles Dickens

Fantasies make certain realities easier to bear. — Devora Gray

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul. — Albert Mackey

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. — Ovadia Yosef