Juan Ramon Jiminez Famous Quotes
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
Juan Ramon Jiminez Quotations
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.
Thomas Fuller
"To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."
William Shakespeare
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
William Hazlitt
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still"
George Gordon Byron
That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Henry Louis Mencken