Mansell House Quotes & Sayings

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points. — Garth Nix

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman. — James Fenimore Cooper

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help. — Otto Von Bismarck

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? — Rudyard Kipling

A tactical orgasm. That's what he needed. Then he'd stop fantasizing about all those lacy bras she'd left back in his bathroom. She really needed to dry those someplace else. It had taken him fifteen minutes to take a leak this morning because the damn things were hanging up right where he - and his dick - could see them. It twitched in his slacks. His dick had a great memory. — Tracy Brogan

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. — Elliott Abrams

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. — Malcolm Wallop

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist. — Monica Ali

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them. — Victor Hugo

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. — Gautama Buddha

I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago. — Corazon Aquino

If you begin to ask questions, you will find the answers. — Lailah Gifty Akita