Gladan Sam Quotes & Sayings

The sooner you go down any path, the sooner you'll know
what action to take. — Marshall Sylver

Death is the destiny of every man.
Every man must know this to live wisely. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found ... — Rebecca Solnit

Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing. — Umar

You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. — Ray Bradbury

Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from? — Glen Cook

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully

It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more ... But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense. — John Dryden

That is the nature of the obscene: a truth so honest it must be guarded, for it holds a revelation of purity that is deadly to mankind. — K.I. Hope