Gibbelins Quotes & Sayings

Believing in negative thoughts is one of the greatest obstructions to success. — Charles F. Glassman

Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and they deemed that he would succeed and enrich the world, and they rubbed their hands in the cities at the thought of largesse; and there was joy among all men in Alderic's country, except perchance among the lenders of money, who feared they would soon be paid. And there was rejoicing also because men hoped that when the Gibbelins were robbed of their hoard, they would shatter their high-built bridge and break the golden chains that bound them to the world, and drift back, they and their tower, to the moon, from which they had come and to which they rightly belonged. There was little love for the Gibbelins, though all men envied their hoard.
("The Hoard Of The Gibbelins") — Lord Dunsany

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. — Thomas Jefferson

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves. — Frank Pittman

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoard that by now he deemed it his. Alas that I should say of so perilous a venture, undertaken at dead of night by a valorous man, that its motive was sheer avarice! Yet upon avarice only the Gibbelins relied to keep their larders full, and once in every hundred years sent spies into the cities of men to see how avarice did, and always the spies returned again to the tower saying that all was well.
It may be thought that, as the years went on and men came by fearful ends on that tower's wall, fewer and fewer would come to the Gibbelins' table: but the Gibbelins found otherwise.
("The Hoard Of The Gibbelins") — Lord Dunsany

Maximizing your favorable occasions is opening your favorable doors to growth and comfort. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man. — Lord Dunsany

When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women. — Julie Burchill

But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said.
"Whose have?" he asked. — Jim Butcher

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. — Seneca The Younger

At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding. — Abhijit Naskar

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy. — Aristophanes

But the root cause of this war was geopolitical. Georgia was determined to go West and Russia was determined to stop it from doing so. — Ronald D. Asmus

The months fall to shards at my feet. — Lauren DeStefano

Scoot over," she whispered.
The mattress shook with his movement.
"A little more," she said.
"If I get any closer to the wall," he hissed, "I'll have to buy it dinner. — Melissa Landers