Prudens Futuri Quotes & Sayings

No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes. — Virginia Woolf

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. — Ron Chernow

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms. — Mark A. Noll

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is. — Paul Weller

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went. — Woody Allen

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself. — Richard Rodgers