Giovanni Boccaccio Sayings

#1. While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Tran Duc Luong

#2. I hated wasting my time. The only thing that seemed worthwhile to me was reading.

Jean-Michel Guenassia

#3. I don't know how to bowl."
"Right, that's a problem, since this place really screams 'professional bowling,'" Silas snips back, rolling his eyes.

Jackson Pearce

#4. The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.

R. K. Milholland

#5. Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#6. You ain't the boss of me, sir, you surely ain't. The only thing you could do right now is kill me, and you still wouldn't be the boss of me.' There

Terry Pratchett

#7. Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

Ruben Papian

#8. Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Giovanni Boccaccio

#9. I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Chuck Klosterman

#10. I don't really care any longer what other people think.

Penelope Wilton

#11. My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Carrie Underwood

#12. People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#13. There ain't half been some clever bastards

Ian Dury

#14. At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

#17. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#18. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#19. Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#20. The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]

Giovanni Boccaccio

#21. Do as we say, and not as we do

Giovanni Boccaccio

#22. In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#23. Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#24. The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Bill Crawford

#25. Arguments that explain everything ... explain nothing

Christopher Hitchens

#26. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#27. I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

Louise L. Hay

#28. In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#29. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#30. Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders

Giovanni Boccaccio