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Barbara De Angelis: Men are just...

Barbara De Angelis: Men are just...

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Source:...

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Taylor Caldwell: He that hath...

Taylor Caldwell: He that hath...

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without...

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Christina of Sweden: God has neither...

Christina of Sweden: God has neither...

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is...

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Elizabeth II: I have to...

Elizabeth II: I have to...

I have to be seen to be believed.

Source: In The Wall Street Journal, 21 Apr...

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M F K Fisher: Central heating, French...

M F K Fisher: Central heating, French...

Central heating, French rubber goods, and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Erica Jong: There is nothing...

Erica Jong: There is nothing...

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...

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Nora Ephron: With any child...

Nora Ephron: With any child...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the...

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Maria Edgeworth: The human heart,...

Maria Edgeworth: The human heart,...

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...

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Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with...

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Dorothy Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Dorothy Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them....

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path. . . we learn to savor the small with a...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Source: In...

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Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Source: A Glass Eye...

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