Sisonke Auction Quotes & Sayings

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it. — Wendy Wasserstein

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. — Hugh Laurie

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man. — Benjamin Franklin

I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered. — Keith Murray

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented. — H.L. Mencken