Leunigs Quotes & Sayings

all mistakes are my own — Lisa See

In the caravan in the farmyard outside Gort I knew for sure there was no God but there was surely a devil. — Kevin Barry

My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. I don't want people not taking me serious. Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on. — Christopher Titus

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself. — Lauren Oliver

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? — Pablo Casals

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy. — Marcel Proust

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others. — Andrew Murray

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel De Montaigne