Miscellany Quotes

#1. The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

Daniel Hannan

#2. The best sequence is this: clothes first, then books, papers, komono (miscellany), and lastly, mementos.

Marie Kondo

#3. A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

John Edensor Littlewood

#4. Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.

Marie Kondo

#5. Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

Mickey Kaus

#7. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

Dan Aykroyd

#9. I doubt women will be surprised that men write more often about the loss of face and the loss of power, while women tend to write about the loss of self.

Caroline Kennedy

#10. What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.... It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings and that every path may lead to peace.

Unknown

#11. Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

William Lloyd Garrison

#12. This is a place we don't have to lie.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions ... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life ... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Asger Jorn

#14. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#15. Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Antonio Porchia