Mapleshade Design Quotes & Sayings

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Pardon if all the cleanness and the beauty
Brave rhythym and the immemorial sea
Ensare us sometimes with their siren song,
Forgetful of our murderous intentions.
Through our uneasy peacetime carnival
Cold sweat of death holds us like a dew;
Even this grey machinery of murder
Holds beauty and the promise of a future. — Norman Hampson

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. — Charles Bukowski

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation. — Lord David Cecil

There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting
not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony. — Yahtzee Croshaw

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make. — Morrissey

I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing. — Kabir

If there is no smoking in heaven, I'm not interested — Mark Twain

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind. — Ken Cohen

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. — Blaise Pascal

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. — Thomas Carlyle