Kawaguchiko Quotes & Sayings

The absent partie is still faultie. — George Herbert

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light. If they were permanently congealed, and small enough to be clutched, they would, perchance, be carried off by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn the heads of emperors; but being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor. They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters, are they! — Henry David Thoreau

Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. — John Ruskin

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems — Walt Whitman

Sure, they fought like two hobos battling over the last bottle of booze, but there was no denying that Olivia and Holden began where the other ended. In — Liz Schulte

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought. — Jack London

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. — Marshall McLuhan

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species. — Helene D. Gayle

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. — Diane Kruger

I do so enjoy having a viscount fall before me."
She started to remove her robe, but he stayed her with his hand. "Don't." He raked her with a heated glance. "Next session of parliament, I'll endure the boredom of the endless speeches by imagining you seducing me in all your pomp and circumstance."
"My pomp is nothing to yours, my love," she murmured as she caught his rampant flesh in her hand. "Yours is quite ... er ... pompous."
"That's what happens if the viscount falls." He thrust against her hand. "His pomp always rises."
And as she laughed, they created a pomp and circumstance all their own. — Sabrina Jeffries