As You Like It Touchstone Quotes

#1. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

Karolina Achirri

#2. He was the worst decision she'd made so far, but she couldn't keep from making it again and again.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. If you feel like you're under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

#4. Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

Francis De Sales

#5. A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.

Miguel Syjuco

#6. I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

Steve Albini

#7. Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences ... miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer's imagination.

Lisa De Jong

#8. Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

Tyler Perry

#9. Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced ... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

Francois Mauriac

#10. It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

John Wilkins

#11. In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

Marilyn French

#12. Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

Caroline Dries

#13. I used to think like that at school," Sabriel answered. "Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be
"
"Rescued?

Garth Nix

#14. Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.

Robert Frost

#15. Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

Jane Smiley

#16. Alayna I adored how he said my name, how it always felt like he was saying so much more with only those three syllables. Like a prayer, like a touchstone. It made me feel beautiful.

Laurelin Paige