Lohuis Installaties Quotes & Sayings

Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenagers who could recite the periodic table of elements or whatever. He was on to them. Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the more you prided yourself on knowing the less you listened and the less you learned. Worse, with application less glibly gifted peers often caught up with or overtook prodigies by early adulthood, and meanwhile the kid to whom everything came so effortlessly never mastered the grind of sheer hard work. — Lionel Shriver

Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold. — Wynne Channing

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon. — David Gerrold

Despite the almost aggressive touch of luxury in the fur coat, it soon became apparent that Sir Walter's large leonine head was for use as well as ornament, and he considered the matter soberly and sanely enough. — G.K. Chesterton

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery ... — Dorothy Cottrell

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself. — Anne Sexton

I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments in life, that's where the challenge is and the uniqueness. I was offering her sympathy. — Dorothy Gilman

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act. — Epicurus