Giovanni Ruffini Quotes

#1. Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Edmund Spenser

#2. Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Giovanni Ruffini

#3. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

#4. All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Giovanni Ruffini

#5. Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Giovanni Ruffini

#6. Offended self-love never forgives.

Giovanni Ruffini

#7. And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just through watching, it disappears. You don't have to do anything more than watching. If you have found the authentic cause by your watching, the suffering will disappear.

Rajneesh

#8. Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

Benedict Of Nursia

#9. Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.

Caroline Knapp

#10. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Socrates

#11. Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Giovanni Ruffini

#12. Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Nicolas Walter

#13. Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Giovanni Ruffini

#14. Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

#15. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Giovanni Ruffini

#16. Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Giovanni Ruffini

#17. Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Giovanni Ruffini

#18. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

Peter Greenaway

#20. If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Giovanni Ruffini

#21. Husband and wife,
so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Giovanni Ruffini

#22. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Robin McKinley

#23. Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Pliny The Elder

#24. Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.

Giovanni Ruffini

#25. Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Giovanni Ruffini

#26. The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

Giovanni Ruffini

#27. More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

Giovanni Ruffini