Koshiyama Shiki Quotes & Sayings

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. — Childe Hassam

The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it. — Richie Ashburn

The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth. — Henry David Thoreau

For each inclosed spirit is a star
Enlightening his own little sphere — Henry Vaughan

nothing like shooting a man while he's down — Patricia Cornwell

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. — Samuel Richardson

I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world. — Meg Rosoff

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. — Robert Graves

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America. — Barbara Olson

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say. — Alexis De Tocqueville