Children have never…
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924 – 87) More »
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924 – 87) More »
“A classic”: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910): Speech, quoting Professor Caleb Winchester, 20 Nov 1900, Nineteenth Century Club, NYC More »
Down corn, down horn. [Corn and horn go together.] More »
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. – Georges Bernanos (1888 – 1948) More »
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. – Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) More »
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly (1952 – ) More »
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. – Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) More »
Battles cost both sides blows. More »
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal. – Anna Pavlova [Anna Pavlovna Pavlova] (1881 – 1931) More »
Don’t cry before you are hurt. More »