Unworn 90s Vintage Quotes & Sayings

You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others. — Alphonsus Liguori

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. — Andrew Vachss

And then I noticed the small cake that still sat uneaten next to him. And another in front of his mother. That was the last straw. I fully disliked them. How dare they leave perfectly good cake untouched? — Tarun Shanker

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. — George Santayana

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty. — Sidney Lanier

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head. — Bob Mould

Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more. — Hans Christian Andersen

Open your eyes. Look at me. I need you to see what you do to me. — M.J. Carnal

The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery. — Carew Papritz