Judith Martin Famous Quotes
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
"There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."
Judith Martin Quotations
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
Christina Baldwin
Every mile is two in winter.
George Herbert
"There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number."
Jerry Coleman
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
"You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you."
Richard Needham
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln
"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time."
Johannes Meister Eckhart
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
Aldous Huxley
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
Ralph Waldo Emerson