I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Merchant Of Venice
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Good counselors lack no clients.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Lavishness is not generosity.
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
A brother is a friend provided by nature.
Legouve Pere
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing
George Perera
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Rosie Perez
I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.
Gabriel Peri
Copyrighted © 2023 — Quotation.io. All rights reserved.
