Lapsley Orchard Quotes & Sayings

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard. — Nicolas Sarkozy

It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present. Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both. Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. - SIR THOMAS BROWNE: Pseudodoxia Epidemica. That — George Eliot

It's kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted, isn't it? — Jenny Han

Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow. — Dan Groat

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world. — Gloria Gaynor

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go? — John B. Tabb

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. — Gloria Pitzer

[My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping. — Prue Leith

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. — Hesiod

Within this raindrop there must be a heart- a heart that weeps the pain of longing. I have her in my palm where the silvery rays of the morn reflect the beauty of the whole cosmos and I kiss her with all my yearning! — Preeth Nambiar