Niggards Quotes & Sayings

Take a good book to bed with you - books do not snore. — Thea Dorn

In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense ... From that great crowd you can choose what companions you please, for in these silent gatherings ... the highest is at the service of the lowest with a grand humility. In a library you become a true citizen of the world. — W. Somerset Maugham

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. — Stanislav Grof

Niggards are oftentimes neat. — Herman Melville

It's the kind of story we learn over and over again about everything in the world: your life starts out as a wild open frontier that you explore until the forces of time or history or civilization or nature intervene, and then suddenly it's all gone, it all weathers and falls down and gets built over; everyone dies or moves away or becomes a grainy photograph, and yes, at some point you just get fat and fall off a streetcar. Progress--it dumps you on your aging and gigantic ass! — Wendy McClure

The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars. — Frederick Lenz

Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before. — Anonymous

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word. — Eugene H. Peterson

You will be on of those gods without magic powers. What are they called? King. — Maggie Stiefvater

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it. — Larry David

Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you? — Kasie West

The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect
its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses ... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men. — Thomas Harriot

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. — Billy Bush

My luck was without equal, my life was a poem, and I was certain that one day, someone was going to write the beautiful tale of my dental autobiography. End of story. — Valeria Luiselli

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular. — H.L. Mencken