Parquetry Wood Quotes & Sayings

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you. — Confucius

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. — Neil Cavuto

In high school, I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. (You may not have guessed this botanist/mechanical engineer was a bit of a nerd in high school, but indeed I was.) In the game I played a cleric. One of the magic spells I could cast was "Create Water." I always thought it was a really stupid spell, and I never used it. Boy, what I wouldn't give to be able to do that in real life right now. — Andy Weir

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it. — Ato Boldon

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows. — Bill Johnson

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. — Ben Jonson

In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men who though they had renounced all else for Christ's sake, nevertheless came together in congregations to be with one another, even as they enforced upon themselves the harsh rules of single solitary cells and unbroken silence. They couldn't bear to be alone.
We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creater, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be
Christ, Yahweh, Allah
He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone. — Anne Rice

You may indulge in the most perverted sexual fantasies on the Internet, stare at the wall blaming the world for everything and feeling generally put upon, feel afraid to go out into the street, be obsessed with cleanliness or a lack of cleanliness, or suffer from bouts of depression and compulsive crying. As long as you can turn up for work and do your bit for society you don't represent a threat. — Paulo Coelho

A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance. — Elsie De Wolfe