Scipione Del Ferro Quotes & Sayings

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government. — Slaine

Leaders are valued for the wring things. — Sara Raasch

we often meet with those whom we expected never to see more; — Voltaire

We live our lives based on the assumption that we directly perceive, and are accurately interpreting, objects with a fair amount of accuracy. Since we naturally assume that we are apprehending objects of cognition as best as possible, it does not occur to us that we are purposely twisting the object before our eyes to fit our own convenience. — Tagawa Shun'ei

You see," said Father Brown in low but easy tone, "Scotch people before Scotland existed were a curious lot. In fact, they're a curious lot still. But in the prehistoric times I fancy they really worshipped demons. That," he added genially, "is why they jumped at the Puritan theology. — G.K. Chesterton

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room. — Enrique Vila-Matas

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. — Nancy Gibbs

Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day. — Robin Hobb

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine. — Leigh-Allyn Baker

Michaelangelo must teach them - do not forget: all things are naked and open before His eyes. — Pope John Paul II