Goodreau Abc Quotes & Sayings

The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman. — Chloe Thurlow

The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere. — Andrew Hodges

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times. — Igor Stravinsky

The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions. If the citizen is to be a reformer, he must start with some ideal which he does not obtain merely by gazing reverently at the unreformed institutions. And if any one asks, as so many are asking: 'What is the use of my son learning all about ancient Athens and remote China and medieval guilds and monasteries, and all sorts of dead or distant things, when he is going to be a superior scientific plumber in Pimlico?' the answer is obvious enough. 'The use of it is that he may have some power of comparison, which will not only prevent him from supposing that Pimlico covers the whole planet, but also enable him, while doing full credit to the beauties and virtues of Pimlico, to point out that, here and there, as revealed by alternative experiments, even Pimlico may conceal somewhere a defect. — G.K. Chesterton

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure. — Anne Fortier

If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president. — Marco Rubio