Sixpenny Couch Quotes & Sayings

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. — Tennessee Williams

C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it. — J. Budziszewski

One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more. — Ellie Wade

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce

Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It's this very unhurried world. It's fairly quiet, it's contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I'm really proud that our music seems to connect, because it's not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there. — Gillian Welch

The wildest friend, the one you once saw walk up to a boy of about five or six who'd been left alone for a minute and say, "Did you know your mom's fucking hot?" that one, that friend. He's always the one who falls the hardest. He's always the one who disappears the most completely when he finds a woman that will put up with him. — Nic Kelman

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first. — Jane Ripley

But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for it to worry him. — Josephine Tey

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. — Benjamin Haydon