Ihara Quotes & Sayings

The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education the answer to the removal of evil. These men had an intellect as well as a will; knowledge as well as intention. Truth can be known and hated; Goodness can be known and crucified. The Hour was approaching, and for the moment the fear of the people deterred the Pharisees. Violence could not be triggered against Him until He would say, 'This is your Hour. — Fulton J. Sheen

And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond. — Ihara Saikaku

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality. — Edmund Burke

I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles. — Saikaku Ihara

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery. — Sandro Veronesi

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. — Saikaku Ihara

I can see the singles ad now: 'Three straight men, a gay man and a woman trapped in one body, seeks a lady willing to share her lipstick and shoes. A perfect match must enjoy cleaning automatic weapons, dividing anti-psychotic drugs into a weekly pill keeper, and long walks on the beach.' The calls would just pour in. — Autumn Rosen

Is there anybody alive out there? — Bruce Springsteen

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. — Ihara Saikaku

Ancient simplicity is gone ... the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. — Ihara Saikaku

In life it is training rather than birth which counts. — Ihara Saikaku

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water. — Ihara Saikaku

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors. — Ihara Saikaku

That idiot...why a battle challenge on live T.V. — Shigekatsu Ihara

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living. — Ihara Saikaku

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty. — Ihara Saikaku

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there. — Ihara Saikaku

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. — Ihara Saikaku

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one. — Richard O'Connor

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. — Ihara Saikaku

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. — Ihara Saikaku

Poetry and song lyrics might want us to believe that finding love is like uncovering buried treasure, but now I know the truth. There's no joy or celebration in love. There are no happy endings. There is simply me and her and a crushing pain. What's left after that? An entire life of mute should-haves and second-bests. — Autumn Doughton

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. — Ihara Saikaku

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. — Ihara Saikaku

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others. — Ihara Saikaku

I don't complain. — Craig Kilborn

When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the moon rising above a distant mountain. The boy's hair gleamed like the feathers of a raven perched silently on a tree, and his eyes were lovely as lotus flowers. One by one his other qualities became apparent, from his nightingale voice to his gentle disposition, as obedient and true as a plum blossom. — Saikaku Ihara

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live. — Stephen Breyer

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. — Ihara Saikaku

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me. — Elisabeth Moss