Cesare Pavese Famous Quotes
The only joy in the world is to begin.
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world."
Cesare Pavese Quotations
"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."
Ben Azai
"You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond."
Andrew Schneider
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
"Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system."
Patricia Roberts Harris
"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
Fran Lebowitz
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships."
Ibycus
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
Bill Lyon
"Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large."
Eloise Salholz