Pasko Tagalog Quotes & Sayings

To give an extra dimension to the scolding she gave me: The word "twerp" was freshly coined in those days, and had a specific definition - it was a person, if I may be forgiven, who bit the bubbles of his own farts in a bathtub. — Kurt Vonnegut

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low. — Parker Stevenson

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. — Patrick O'Brian

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth. — Helen Keller

The forest grows ferns and trees; it cultivates mushrooms and spores; it fosters its creatures from nothingness to more of the mulchy same. And for Jason, the seeds of backbone, of entitlement, were nurtured in the fertile hollow that had dropped the bottom out of civilized advancement. The forest insisted. It pushed back. At some sudden swell of that's-enough, it emphatically refused to be overrun by bullying machinery and someone else's idea of what it should be. — Jamie Mason

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. — Rory Stewart

But caveat lector: life is waiting, and to read about someone who writes about life is getting far from it. Reading Schopenhauer when he tells you to watch out for reading too many books is already getting far from it, and at this moment you are reading someone who is telling you about how Schopenhauer said that you should not let reading come between you and life. In philosophy, the infinite regress is a sign that someone has made a mistake in logic. In ordinary life, it is a sign that someone is hiding from reality. — Clive James

Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right? — Girl234

Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration. — Brian McGreevy