Maxine Hong Kingston Famous Quotes



The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.


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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Tancred

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.
Assyrian Proverb

"One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel."
Jewish Folk Saying

"When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget."
Christina Georgina Rossetti

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan S Taylor

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
William Hazlitt

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Vegetius

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.
Ralph Kiner