Montauksoundview Quotes & Sayings

As the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information or pleasure. For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. — Benjamin Franklin

[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate. — Aristotle.

He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he's been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He's one up. — Sally Thorne

I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it. — Wale

You, ginger balls, you shut the fuck up. — Karina Halle

Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again. — C.S. Lewis

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert. — Harlan Ellison

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. — Nelson DeMille

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be. — David Halberstam

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. — C.S. Lewis

we can trust children to find out about the world, and that when trusted, they do find out. — John Holt

When people write in favor or against anybody, that hardly helps or hurts them ... man can be done or undone by his own writing, not by what other people say of him. — Jorge Luis Borges