Obsoletes Simeon Quotes & Sayings

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. — Beck

Her eyes weren't blinking. There was still something almost dead in them, something very far away. She seemed to be seeing all the way through to the back of him and beyond, out into the cold space of the future in which they would both soon be dead, out into the nothingness that Lalitha and his mother and his father had already passed into, and yet she was looking straight into his eyes, and he could feel her getting warmer by the minute. And so he stopped looking at her eyes and started looking into them, returning their look before it was too late, before this connection between life and what came after life was lost, and let her see all the vileness inside him, all the hatreds of two thousand solitary nights, while the two of them were still with the void in which the sum of everything they'd ever said or done, every pain they'd inflicted, every joy they'd shared, would weigh less than the smallest feather on the wind. — Jonathan Franzen

The typical human brain can hold about seven pieces of new information for less than 30 seconds! — John Medina

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall. — Larry Wilde