Lexicons Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking. — Louis L'Amour

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment. — Mark Twain

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.] — Horace

I was grateful for cereal
the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle. — Craig Thompson

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis. — Antony Gormley

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. — Maxine Kumin

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it. — Cassandra Clare