Monsieur Jocaste Quotes & Sayings

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. — Charles M. Schulz

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

Imagine a vast and glittering ocean seen from a great height. It stretches to the clear curved limit of every angle of horizon, the sun burning on a billion tiny wavelets. Now imagine a smooth blanket of cloud above the ocean, a shell of black velvet suspended high above the water and also extending to the horizon, but keep the sparkle of the sea despite the lack of sun. Add to the cloud many sharp and tiny lights, scattered on the base of the inky overcast like glinting eyes: singly, in pairs or in larger groups, each positioned far, far away from any other set. — Iain M. Banks

The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self — Ali R.A

The best novels, the writer's imagination becomes the reader's reality. — William Golding

We are all tainted by the decisions we make." "And the taste of our souls reflects that?" "It does. — Darynda Jones

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more. — Jack Benny

Love is an art and this world lack artists. — Javaria Waseem

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. Cultivate property like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts ... Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau

Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. — J.K. Rowling

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources. — Brian Tracy

Hated France when I first got over here. Got on the train at Le Havre, and looked out of the window and thought it looked so exactly like America, I wanted to cry. The scenery flying past, the hills and barns and cows, were just the sort of things you keep coming across through a train window in the States. The Untrained Eye, I told myself, training it enough to see that all the signs were written in French, at the same time letting the untrained nose get its first exotic whiff of garlic from my traveling companions, and the untrained stomach its first attack of French dysentery. But still, these were the only differences. I asked myself finally what exactly did I expect France to look like? No answer. — Elaine Dundy

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. — Washington Irving

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire? — Guy De Maupassant

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do. — Lemony Snicket