Rabadzija Palma Quotes & Sayings

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. — Philip Hone

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job. — Peter Mayle

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted. — Jacques Delors

9 Holding a cup and overfilling it Cannot be as good as stopping short Pounding a blade and sharpening it Cannot be kept for long1 Gold and jade fill up the room No one is able to protect them Wealth and position bring arrogance And leave disasters upon oneself2 When achievement is completed, fame is attained Withdraw oneself3 This is the Tao of Heaven — Lao-Tzu

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. — Thomas Paine

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so. — Joan Of Arc

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks. — Zora Neale Hurston

Only he whose bright lyre
has sounded in shadows
may, looking onward, restore
his infinite praise.
Only he who has eaten
poppies with the dead
will not lose ever again
the gentlest chord.
Though the image upon the pool
often grows dim:
Know and be still.
Inside the Double World
all voices become
eternally mild. — Rainer Maria Rilke