Abiah Folger Quotes

#1. Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Thomas Otway

#2. We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

Robert E. Wells

#3. Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

Paul Merton

#4. The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. I was whole in and of myself, but better than whole with him.

Amy Plum

#6. Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing I won't ever be lonely again

Conor Oberst

#7. Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#9. When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

Alanis Morissette

#10. As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.

Thom Gunn

#11. Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

Mallory Jansen