Gold Star Wives Quotes & Sayings

When the Grim Reaper comes to call, words fail- they're just too small. — Dixie Lyle

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery, — Plutarch

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away. — Georgia O'Keeffe

It must be granted that many aspects of the intellectual life of that era showed energy and grandeur. We moderns explain its concomitant uncertainty and falseness as a symptom of the horror which seized men when at the end of an era of apparent victory and success they found themselves suddenly confronting a void: great material scarcity, a period of political and military crises, and an accelerating distrust of the intellect itself, of its own virtue and dignity and even of its own existence. Yet that very period, filled though it was with premonitions of doom, was marked by some very fine intellectual achievements, — Hermann Hesse

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised. — Syed Arshad

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. — Bias Of Priene