Mijn Opa Quotes & Sayings

The great critic ... must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham

The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn't even know he's in prison. — Pittacus Lore

But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from hearsay.
No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father? — Oscar Wilde

Backed by a long, proud history of not-dying, I know when someone's serious. — Ann Aguirre

Ask ... what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule. — Tony Judt

She was at least seventy, tall, withered, and angular, with white hair arranged in old-fashioned sausage curls on her temples. She was dressed in the quaint and clumsy style of the wandering Englishwoman, like a person to whom clothes were a matter of complete indifference; she was eating an omelette and drinking water. — Guy De Maupassant

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about. — Laini Taylor

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. — Christopher Marlowe

This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches ... that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place. — Barry Alvarez

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself. — Evanna Lynch

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. — James Dobson