Murakumogiri Quotes & Sayings

Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and in the arts, manifested in manual works of labor. I will give you plenty of examples. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies 1405 — Elizabeth Gilbert

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty - we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business. — William Wilberforce

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. — Abraham Verghese

And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my life to this. This is worth while.'
You know what fools we are at two-and-twenty? — H.G.Wells

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. — Zoe Kazan

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. — Gerald R. Ford

Everybody has their shit to shovel, — Sarina Bowen

Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth. — Terry Pratchett

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. — Jules Renard

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. — Sean Combs

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Lucretius

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others. — Mary Pipher