Generetion Quotes & Sayings

If an aristocrat became bankrupt he looked to the sunshine of royal providence [ ... ] but when the nobility sank too low to qualify for royal notice, they became fraudsters, trading on the display of rank: the man would become a card-sharper or gigolo, while the woman sold herself. Actual work would have been unthinkable. It would have offended against the ancient order of things, which assigned that role to the middle classes and the peasantry. This concept is difficult to connect with our modern view of the world, but its very absurdity follows directly from the fact that everything in its old order was so firm and wonderful - with everything in its eternally appointed place and moving in fixed circles like the stars. There was no changing your lot in life at will: it was assigned to you forever, by birth. If you fell below your appointed station, you couldn't just swap it for another - you simply plummeted into the void. — Antal Szerb

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country. — Myles Munroe

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. — Harold Ramis

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love. — Robin Wright

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it. — Hubert Van Zeller

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting. — Yves Klein

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management. — Evan Esar

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? — Lewis Carroll

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman