Iain Clayton Quotes & Sayings

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them. — Maureen O'Hara

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. — Charles Peguy

In churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. — Victor Hugo

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger

It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one. — Robert A. Heinlein

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. — Hannah More

Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it. — Courtney Milan

I almost kissed her then, but lost my courage. Boys can be dopes — Stephen King