Goebel Figurines Quotes

#1. The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

William Faulkner

#2. If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

David Halberstam

#3. The very important thing you should have is patience.

Jack Ma

#4. Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

Sarah Doudney

#5. When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
And the brown bee drones in the rose,
And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
And summer is near its close,
It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane;
And dusk, and dew, and home again!

Madison Cawein

#6. Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep.

Ada Calhoun

#8. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. 79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."

Stephen Potter