Tel Fono Quotes & Sayings

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep. — Carl Honore

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. — Martha Beck

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side. — Jim Lee

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable. — Elizabeth Bibesco

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization. — S.I. Hayakawa

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong