Leoncavallo Vesti Quotes & Sayings

You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word. — Andrew Jackson

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in. — Christopher Hampton

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up. — Adrian Tomine

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good. — William Hazlitt

Telling someone who's crying not to cry
is the same as telling someone who's falling not to fall. — Tablo

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. — Epicurus

How is it possible to feel exiled from a language that isn't mine? That I don't know? Maybe because I'm a writer who doesn't belong completely to any language. — Jhumpa Lahiri