Passersby Define Quotes & Sayings

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age. — Mstislav Rostropovich

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake. — Jean De La Bruyere

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did. — Bill Cosby

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history — Charles Kennedy

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It's what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy. — Lauren Handel Zander

And I saw in them a hope...A hope that it was possible to have secrets, to mask one's true nature...and yet still to walk among men. — Kurt Busiek

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. — Mignon McLaughlin

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. — Jonathan Meades