Bondhu Quotes

#1. No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#2. Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.

Dan Pearce

#3. Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

David Almond

#4. A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

Elisha Gray

#5. In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Jacques Derrida

#6. The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. 1JO4.1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Anonymous

#9. Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Bob Dylan

#10. At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#11. [My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

William Cowper

#12. Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

Richard Price