Wise Old Elf Quotes & Sayings

No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night! — Kenneth Grahame

The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world's malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there's nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you've nothing better to do. — Simon R. Green

Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler. — Giannina Braschi

When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail. — Ernest Holmes

Fireflies were the souls of unbaptized dead infants. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies. — Tobin Heath

Only winners have fans, No one care about losers — Mohammed Sekouty

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility. — Javier Solana

I think best on two wheels — Kenneth L. Decroo

The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost — Sunday Adelaja

My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it. — Amber Stevens

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. — Conrad Black