Laeckerli Quotes & Sayings

Tolerating is the gift from God to women! — Rainer Maria Rilke

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings — William Shakespeare

The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle. — Alexander McCall Smith

Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall. — John P. Kotter

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. — Muriel Spark

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. — Elbert Hubbard

If you're going thru hell, keep going. — Rob Estes

Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. — Charles Caleb Colton

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics. — Avril Lavigne

Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what seemed like change was only recurrence of the eternal order. Thus, Egyptian literature does not contain careful records of the deeds, or distinctive characteristics of the pharaohs. Rather they are portrayed as the divine ideal, always just, wise, bold, strong, and victorious. — Norman F. Cantor