Pantanos De Valencia Quotes & Sayings

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. — Charles Baudelaire

In the challenges of life lie the lessons of wisdom; the wise are those who have endured many challnges — Keagana 'Thuso'

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end. — Charles Spurgeon

Eyeglasses had been in use since the turn of the century, allowing old people to read more in their later years and greatly extending the scholar's life of study. The manufacture of paper as a cheaper and more plentiful material than parchment was beginning to make possible multiple copies and wider distribution of literary works. — Barbara W. Tuchman

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably. — Storm Jameson

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world. — William Shakespeare

The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...] — Giovanni Boccaccio

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. — Niklaus Wirth

But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.' — Natalia Vodianova

I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life. — Cindi Madsen