Pirrung Auctioneers Quotes & Sayings

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are,
/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class. — Tavis Smiley

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit. — Nick Harkaway

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one. — Ram Dass

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own! — Emily Dickinson

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have. — Paulo Freire

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone. — Robin Sharma

Far too many people attend church not to meet with Jesus but rather to make an appearance. — Perry Noble

It's that he persists in the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair. — David Foster Wallace

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. — Don Mattingly

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love — Bryant McGill

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody. — John Baldessari