Venerableness Quotes & Sayings

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy. — Kylie Minogue

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,
when did burdock and plantain sprout first? — Henry David Thoreau

Safe trip. I love you. No kidding. — Donna Tartt

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas

One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook. — Yuri Milner

He wrapped her around his hands and then yanked her inside out. — Peter Lerangis

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about. — Jonathan Harnisch

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Wilde

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them they are not worth the search — William Shakespeare

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny. — Robert Thurman

It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it. — Sharon Shinn

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. — Charlie Chaplin

It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness
physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination. — Lord Chesterfield

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. — J.B. Priestley

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — Robert Henri

Now comes the mystery! (last words) — Henry Ward Beecher