Verdot Quotes & Sayings

When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station — James Patterson

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ... — Michael Lewis

She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world. — Yasmin Mogahed

Ah, I remember now why you ceased to amuse, Myrnin. You use honesy like a club. — Rachel Caine

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. — Maya Angelou

And it is said that extraordinary rains generally dash down after great battles, whether it is that some divine power drenches and hallows the ground with purifying waters from Heaven, or that the blood and putrefying matter send up a moist and heavy vapour which condenses the air, this being easily moved and readily changed to the highest degree by the slightest cause. — Plutarch

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau