Moses Todd Quotes & Sayings

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever it takes me, good to know in the end, it'll lead back to you. — Kristen Ashley

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca The Younger

He looks again at the face of the little girl. He wonders where she went, that little firecracker life, that smoldering, spitting, whizgig of a girl. He wonders if he can tell from the expression on her face where she's gone to.
And he smiles because he can.
The angels would want her sure. — Alden Bell

What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. The world is a complex an many-sided thing. — Paul Feyerabend

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. — Donald Hall

Todd twitched. Cheater. Was the world made of cheaters? — Anonymous