Proverbs Adages Quotes & Sayings

Doing nothing is also an action; not making a decision is making a decision. — Bohdi Sanders

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ... and you've got it made. — Og Mandino

Imagine traveling deep to the very centre of your soul ... ... ...
HAVE YOU ... ..!!!!!! — Sameh Elsayed

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying. — Leonardo Da Vinci

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. — Tamra Davis

All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none. — Joseph Smith Jr.

People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting ... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying. — Cindy Sherman

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone? ... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour. — Desiderius Erasmus

All these details took but a moment to apprehend yet the impression made upon Mr. Segundus by the two ladies was unusually vivid --almost supernaturally so-- like images in a delirium. A queer shock thrilled through his whole being his senses were overwhelmed and he fainted away. — Susanna Clarke