Lobosco Bridge Quotes & Sayings

The day which we fear as our last
is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca.

Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,
Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;
Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure,
Nor any Forren mixtures can endure;
Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face
Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace,
Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize
But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes:
Those following Leaves display, if well observed,
How she long Her Maydenhead preserved,
How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell;
Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel,
Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree,
Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie. — James Howell

I can see how your mother would have a point. Having a debate with a politically minded woman can be intriguing and even entertaining but to share a house with her and have her always campaigning and protesting at the dinner table," he slanted his gaze down toward me. "That could be very tiring indeed. — Gwenn Wright

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. — Virginia Woolf

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis. — Peter Greenaway

Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears. — J. D. Bernal

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things. — Henry James

Open every door gently and with kindness even if you have the power to crash the door with only your breath! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here. — Ted Cruz