Varsovia Concerto Quotes & Sayings

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.
'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.
'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy. — Agatha Christie

Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children's hands, in front-yard plots - now standing by wallsides in retired pastures, and giving place to new-rising forests; - the last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family. Little did the dusky children think that the puny slip with its two eyes only, which they stuck in the ground in the shadow of the house and daily watered, would root itself so, and outlive them, and house itself in the rear that shaded it, and grown man's garden and orchard, and tell their story faintly to the lone wanderer a half-century after they had grown up and died - blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that first spring. I mark its still tender, civil, cheerful lilac colors. — Henry David Thoreau

For to be over-developed is to hasten decay, and this is against Tao, and what is against Tao will soon cease to be. — Lao-Tzu

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. — Martin Van Buren

Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own. — Ramana Maharshi

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation. — Charles Wagner

I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester. — Carol Leifer

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth. — Mahatma Gandhi

To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today's and what we would now call mental disorders were often understood as religious ecstasies or diabolical possessions. — Mike Jay

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. — Marvin Harris

The more you fail is the more you get closer to success because you lessen your chances of failing by not only confronting wrong paths but also eliminating them from the scenario, thus remaining with the right ones — Nathanael Kanyinga