I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins–particularly fashionable sins.
J. G. HOLLANDHonor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
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There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
BILL DRAYTON -
It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. -
There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
SAADI -
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH -
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Darling why do you always run from the things that scare you?
COURT YOUNG -
Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO -
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI -
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
AMANDA GORMAN -
Roger Federer is stylish.
BJORN BORG -
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HENRY -
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.
BARBARA BOXER