Festal Quotes

#1. Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Juvenal

#3. If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I love to go and mingle with the young
In the gay festal room
when every heart
Is beating faster than the merry tune,
And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#6. Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

#7. The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life ... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

#9. MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I

Eric Metaxas

#11. Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

John Bradshaw

#12. ... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ...

Louisa May Alcott

#13. He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.

Christina Baker Kline

#14. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.

Neil Young

#15. Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

Gautama Buddha

#16. Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

Ian Stewart

#17. Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.

Kevin Wall

#18. Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

Evan Williams

#19. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.

Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.

And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.

You Jin

#20. In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

Emmitt Smith

#22. What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck