Incontestible Quotes & Sayings

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors! — Maria Edgeworth

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in. — Esther Hicks

Sometimes the fabric that separates us tears just enough for love to shine through. Sometimes the tear is surprisingly small. — Michael Cunningham

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. — Joe Bradley

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, — Thomas De Quincey

So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ?
but, Is my hunger gone?
That moment will arrive several bites sooner. — Michael Pollan