Ponsot Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is priceless ... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot

What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different. — Charlie Kaufman

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. — Enid Bagnold

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate. — Napoleon Hill

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air — Marie Ponsot

If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution. — Milton Friedman

Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow. — Marie Ponsot

Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?'
'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph. — Winston Graham

We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath. — Neil Gaiman

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. — Herbert Spencer

Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree? — Cassandra Clare

As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others. — James Madison