Scoprire Si Quotes & Sayings

Each day has a color, a smell. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong. — Ben Browder

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. — Plutarch

Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry the Second, with the purpose of buying golden opinions of the inhabitants of that new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince their loyal homage and the kiss of peace. But, instead of receiving their salutations with courtesy, John and his petulant attendants could not resist the temptation of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly resented by these insulted dignitaries, and produced fatal consequences to the English domination in Ireland. It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening. — Walter Scott

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something - I am God. — Alec Baldwin

The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements. I — Liu Cixin

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. — Jean De La Bruyere