Paysan Artisan Quotes & Sayings

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought. — Richard Scarry

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it. — Ving Rhames

(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word). — Philip Roth

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will. — Napoleon Hill

Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it. — L.M. Montgomery

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it. — Lionel Shriver

When men are employ'd, they are best content'd; for on the days they worked they were good-natur'd and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc. — Benjamin Franklin

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. — Victor Hugo

I am in no way an adrenaline-seeker. I'm much more of an irritable bowel syndrome kind of gal, really. And rest assured, my bowels were highly irritated by all the stress. — Camille Perri

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other. — Eric Schmidt

Gold belongs only in the portfolios of fearmongers and speculators. If you own gold in your portfolio, expect to not get paid an income, pay higher taxes on your returns, take a more volatile ride than the stock market, and get a long-term return lower than bonds. — Peter Mallouk