Idiomatically What Is The Best Quotes & Sayings

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character? — Plutarch

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. — Lord Byron

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love. — Hafez

I started to enjoy the regal sport of cockfighting ... but I'm still having trouble getting the hang of windmilling the bayonet — Josh Stern

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. — Joseph Addison

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service. — Saint Ignatius

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it. — Peter Sellers

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be. — Orson Welles

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world. — Philip Yancey

Never regret losing time on reading good books — Kowtham Kumar K

If you share bad thing to the people,
they redouble it by referring to you. — Toba Beta

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers. — Robert Fripp

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage. — Ian McEwan