Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
– Somerset Maugham
Category: You Were Saying
Words worthy of quoting and remembering.
So You Think You Can Dance?
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
– Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]
In Case You Wish To Improve Confidence Levels, Consider This
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
– Peter T. Mcintyre
For The Stubbornly Nostalgic and the Sad Hedonists, An Observation
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
– George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-born American philosopher, writer
Small Yet Significant Ironies Of Life
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
– Wm. Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act IV: 5
Well, I Mean They Really Must!
The ends must justify the means.
– Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
King Arthur On Mubarak's Mind?
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow’d of the power in his eye That bow’d the will.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883)
From the Latin and Old French, Charity means Love, Just FYI!
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
–Paul, the apostle, circa 57 AD
