Top 28 Ihara Saikaku Quotes
#1. If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
Ihara Saikaku
#2. Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
Ihara Saikaku
#3. Ancient simplicity is gone ... the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
Ihara Saikaku
#4. The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
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#5. If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
Ihara Saikaku
#6. To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
Ihara Saikaku
#7. Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
Ihara Saikaku
#8. And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.
Ihara Saikaku
#9. The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.
Philippe Petit
#10. In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
Ihara Saikaku
#11. There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
Saikaku Ihara
#12. For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.
Tom Chatfield
#13. I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles.
Saikaku Ihara
#14. Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
Ihara Saikaku
#15. No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
Ihara Saikaku
#16. Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water.
Ihara Saikaku
#17. If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.
Eli Evans
#18. To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Ihara Saikaku
#19. This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.
Martin Luther
#20. For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
Ihara Saikaku
#21. My apologies. To kiss you now was inappropriate. But gladly, I would kiss you again.
Ashlan Thomas
#22. Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
Shams Tabrizi
#24. What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#25. I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
Emma Donoghue
#26. When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
Ihara Saikaku
#27. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
Ihara Saikaku
