Ikkyu San Quotes & Sayings

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. — Emily Bronte

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time. — Ron Paul

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate. — Lord Chesterfield

Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell."
"To be fair, you still look pretty bad. — John Green

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. — Frank Tibolt

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. — Judith Martin

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? — Henry James