Cephalus Quotes

#1. There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.

Plato

#2. She's always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.

Joseph Bruchac

#3. Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.

Alan Ryan

#4. Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Munia Khan

#5. Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.

Sol Stein

#6. A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

Odd Nerdrum

#7. Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation.

J.D. Salinger

#8. While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Herman Melville

#9. They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.

Ally Condie

#10. I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Mark Gatiss

#11. Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

Julie Anne Peters

#12. Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#13. I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.

Leonora Carrington

#14. It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

Donald Miller