Steve Tesich Famous Quotes
"No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you."
Steve Tesich Quotations
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
Seneca
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Francis Bacon
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
Laurence J Peter
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
Henry J Tillman
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction"
Abraham Lincoln
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Sextus Propertius
"Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with."
William Shakespeare
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
Margaret Thatcher
"To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
Samuel Butler