Fondazione Enasarco Quotes

#1. Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Stephen Leacock

#2. Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

Baruch Spinoza

#3. She holds every dress briefly by its shoulders like it's a schoolkid she's checking out for smudges before church. Then one by one they get flung away from her and into the fire.

Mary Karr

#4. The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Lou Reed

#5. Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

Antonio Banderas

#6. The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Euripides

#7. We move closer together like sections of a tightened shoelace

Veronica Roth

#8. The old maxim ... there are three things necessary to success in life
Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

William Hazlitt

#9. Always be working on at least one thing you'd be jealous of.

Damon Suede

#10. The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Nicola Sturgeon