Ariston Cafe Quotes

#1. The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

Juvenal

#2. Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure.

Barry Napier

#3. I like seals," he said to me, as if to excuse the apparent oddness of his taking the au pair to the zoo. Hmmm.

Meg Cabot

#4. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Jean Cocteau

#5. I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.

Elliott Carter

#6. A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Sowthey

#7. I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

Imelda May

#8. Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

Yehudi Menuhin

#9. Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.

Joe Lieberman