Plschk Quotes & Sayings

We were enveloped in that state of grace where one melds with the flow of Nature. Having once tasted it, one craves that state like water. — Jack Loeffler

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another. — Epictetus

My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was. — David Holt

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. — David Mitchell

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. — Thomas Henry Huxley

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You decline?" he cried, almost defiantly. " 'Decline' isn't the word. A man doesn't decline an insult. — Henry James

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything. — Annie Barrows