Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Proverb
Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment
William Shakespeare
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Stumbling is not falling.
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Peace with a club in hand is war.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Live to live and you will learn to live.
Proverb, Portuguese Proverb
Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
Paulo Coelho
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shame is worse than death.
Any port in a storm.
Scottish Proverb
Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
Orson Scott Card
But there is another way of using the equivalence, which is almost the opposite of allegory, and which I would call sacramentalism or symbolism. If our passions, being immaterial, can be copied by material inventions, then it is possible that our material world in its turn is the copy of an invisible world. As the god Amor and his figurative garden are to the actual passions of men, so perhaps we ourselves and our 'real' world are to something else. The attempt to read that something else through its sensible imitations, to see the archetype in the copy, is what I mean by symbolism or sacramentalism. It is, in fine, 'the philosophy of Hermes that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as a portrait, things are not truly but in equivocal shapes, as they counterfeit some real substance in that visible fabrick'. The difference between the two can hardly be exaggerated. The allegorist leaves the given -- his own passions -- to talk of that which is confessedly less real, which is a fiction. The symbolist leaves the given to find that which is more real. To put the difference in another way, for the symbolist it is we who are the allegory. We are the 'frigid personifications'; the heavens above us are the 'shadowy abstractions'; the world which we mistake for reality is the flat outline of that which elsewhere veritably is in all the round of its unimaginable dimensions.
C.S. Lewis
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan
Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
Marshall McLuhan
Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.
Steve Maraboli
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophy can make people sick.
Aristotle
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18
Albert Einstein
Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron ? travers le rideau. Si Harry avait eu envie d'être transformé en mollusque, il l'aurait demandé.Tout le monde peut commettre des erreurs, répondit Hermione. D'ailleurs, ça ne te fait plus mal, n'est-ce-pas, Harry?Non, dit Harry. L'ennuie, c'est que ça ne me fait plus rien du tout.
J.K. Rowling
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Family of Fools is ancient
Benjamin Franklin
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere
I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.
Cassandra Clare
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
George Eliot
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