Proclamare Quotes & Sayings

If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this orgasm as much as I can. — Paulo Coelho

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming. — E. O. Wilson

It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer. — M.E. Kerr

Remember, to believe something is to act as if it is so. To believe that two plus two equals four is to behave accordingly when trying to find out how many dollars or apples are in the house. The advantage of believing it is not that we can pass tests in arithmetic; it is that we can deal much more successfully with reality. Just try dealing with it as if two plus two equaled six. — Dallas Willard

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. — Colette

Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots. — Richard Haynes

You [priests] are called 'another Christ.' — Mother Teresa

Maud had feared this. Fitz was no compromiser. He believed that Britain should issue orders and the world should obey. The idea that the government might have to negotiate with others as equals was abhorrent to him. And there were distressingly many who agreed. — Ken Follett

And where, in my time, would my body lie? — Louis L'Amour

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell