Famous Thai Sayings

#1. Linguists traditionally observe that esteemed writers have been using they as a gender-neutral pronoun for almost a thousand years. As far back as the 1400s, in the Sir Amadace story, one finds the likes of Iche mon in thayre degree ("Each man in their degree").

John McWhorter

#2. If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

Steve Morse

#4. A rich man is an honest man
no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

Daniel Defoe

#5. A day's brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.

A.D. Posey

#6. The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all.

John Howard Griffin

#7. Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing."

Unknown

Danny L. Deaube

#8. [Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

Kirby Larson

#9. Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

Gijs De Vries

#10. This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#12. I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was the universe.

George R R Martin