Mistresss Quotes & Sayings

Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is - which was the only way he could get there - thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself. Surely his was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be a true philosopher, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester. — Herman Melville

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. — Mohsin Hamid

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The real yellow peril: Gold. — Mark Twain

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo! — Tara Adams

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) — Norma Fox Mazer