Karels World Quotes & Sayings

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do ... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be. — Evelyn Underhill

Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system ... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man's career with cool, cautious self-possession ... — R.M. Ballantyne

To expect a convict to have the strength to give up smoking is to expect a leopard to change his spots, become vegetarian and learn to knit, all on the same day. — Stephen Fry

Oh, bless your heart," she says, which in southern is akin to 'you poor, stupid thing. — Eve Jagger

She wondered what it said about her spiritual fitness that her clearest messages from the Almighty seemed to come from the alternative rock station. — Julia Spencer-Fleming

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration. — Warren Buffett

The stupid are invincible. — Albert Einstein