Good Tempered Pleasant Quotes & Sayings

On first speaking to the man, his ingratiating smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, "What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!" yet during the next moment or two one would feel inclined to say nothing at all, and, during the third moment, only to say, "The devil alone knows what he is! — Nikolai Gogol

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years. — Kevin Smith

Your simple words just don't move me ...
You're minor, we major.
You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player. — Prodigy

He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie. — Lili St. Crow

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. — Maria Montessori

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it. — Daphne Guinness

The eyes she remembered: dark and serious, ringed by the kind of lashes boys didn't care about and girls would kill for. — Cassandra Clare

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. — Henry Drummond