Mapleshades Past Quotes & Sayings

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. — Horace

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais

Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn't yet published a book of poems he seemed to have spent his time better, or more imaginatively, or maybe what could be said is that he felt a pressure to go places, meet people, and experience things that, whenever I have encountered it in someone, has always made me envious. — Nicole Krauss

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time. — Robert N. Lee

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far. — Sugar Ray Leonard

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute. — Christopher Pike

Good preparation is better then hope for a miracle. — Sunday Adelaja

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like. — Esha Gupta

The flood of time is rolling on;
We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
Have ye done well? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play. — Rob James-Collier

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. — Vance Havner

To accomplish a bright future is to accomplish bright and huge tasks — Sunday Adelaja

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art. — Yoko Ono

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them. — Charles De Lint

The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care. — Art Linkletter