Phileros Quotes & Sayings

Who needs sleep when you have a good book? — Elizabeth Ann Patterson

23 c Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue d keeps himself out of e trouble. — Anonymous

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King

Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 were the others). Former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former defense secretary Bill Perry, and former senator Sam Nunn had also called for "going to zero." The only problem, in my view, was that I hadn't heard the leaders of any other nuclear country - Britain, France, Russia, China, India, or Pakistan - signal the same intent. — Robert M. Gates

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros. — Martial

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe. — Manolo Blahnik

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle.

Because you know, truth is, I don't give a shit about some scratched-up vinyl Rahsaan Kirk, Ornette Coleman sound-like-a-goose-trying-to-fuck-a-bicycle bootleg pressing from the rare Paris concert of 1967. I spend five minutes listening to that, I'm like to want to slap somebody. I — Michael Chabon

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies. — Winston Churchill

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love. — Therese Of Lisieux

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents. — Henry Ward Beecher