Vermonts Population Quotes & Sayings

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it. — Plato

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. — E.W. Howe

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting. — Margaret Heffernan

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself. — Hendrik Poinar

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. — Logan Pearsall Smith

In the streets outside everything was still. The hour before five was the only time of day this city slept. In my earlier life, during the twelve years I had lived in Bergen I used to stay up at night as often as I could. I never reflected on this, it was just something I liked and did. It had started as a student ideal, grounded in a notion that in some way night was associated with freedom. Not in itself but as a response to the nine-to-four reality which I, and a couple of others, regarded as middle-class and conformist. We wanted to be free, we stayed up at night. Continuing with this had less to do with freedom than a growing need to be alone. This, I understood now, I shared with my father. In the house where we lived he had a whole studio apartment to himself and he spent more or less every evening there. The night was his. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it's more about you than it's about the person who's being forgiven — Cynthia Hand

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy. — Faustino Ballve