Kimerling Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen. — Jamie Dimon

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. — Diana Wynne Jones

because of the fact I now have a son and I am raising him to avoid the very person who is supposed to protect us. Who is going to protect me from the person that is supposed to be protecting me? — Zachary Turnage

The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her. — Yu Hua

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done? — Josemaria Escriva

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride. — Robert Browning

We come to beginnings only at the end. — William Throsby Bridges

The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each must obey an absolute rule of conduct. Three words established and hallowed by usage express the divinities, the values, the supreme aims served respectively by these three kinds of men with an undivided loyalty: truth for the scientist; beauty for the artist; goodness for the saint. The discussion on what these words mean will never end. We must be content with taking note of their clarity as symbols, and of the singular force which animates them and makes of them powerful poles of attraction. — Salvador De Madariaga

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance. — Leonardo Da Vinci