Rabp Quotes & Sayings

Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. — Dejan Stojanovic

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. — Jane Goodall

And what am I to do on the occasion?
It seems an hopeless business. — Jane Austen

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs — Richard Crashaw

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin

For I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation. — Jane Austen

Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods. Literally, you're in the woods - probably too much you're in the woods. And metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life. — Jay Parini

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945) — George Orwell

France has given us the best filmmakers and food. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. — H.L. Mencken

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. — Rumi

Failure is not the final fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A capital patient, as she never died and never got well. — Louisa May Alcott

Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy. — Deirdre Riordan Hall

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters. — Louisa May Alcott

It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music — Zoe Kendrick Pyne