Momo Beppo Quotes & Sayings

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead. — Lily King

Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress. — Georgette Heyer

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. — Henry Fielding

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. — Carl Jung

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.' — Aaron Staton

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. — P.D. Ouspensky

We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it. Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part in these duties not as unambitious but as useless, we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot originate, and instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. — Pericles

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. — Thucydides