Pforzheimer Collection Quotes & Sayings

Lips, let sour words go by and language end:
What is amiss plague and infection mend!
Graves only be men's works and death their gain!
Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign. — William Shakespeare

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home — Edgar A. Guest

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling — Robert Breault

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money. — David Rubenstein

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union. — Jim Renacci

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. — Freya Stark

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. — James Dyson

of dark passageways, their footsteps echoing. Schoenberg — Anne-Marie O'Connor

Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You're nothing but a boy - a well-built, virile, obscenely handsome boy - but still, a boy. You can't lord over me. You can't scare me into true love. I don't care if you're gorgeous or rich or powerful. Tedros — Soman Chainani

Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. — Amelia Barr