Ornate Cross Quotes

#1. He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.

Jonathan Sumption

#2. Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

H.G.Wells

#3. The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

John Guare

#4. There are three things in life that are extremely hard.
Steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Max Perutz

#6. Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

Howard Carter

#7. Because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

Dean Koontz

#8. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Aldous Huxley

#9. Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who make you want to sail very far away, and above all for a very long time.

Timothee De Fombelle

#10. What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession.

Andre Gide

#11. A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Jalal Talabani

#12. I confess that neither the structure of the languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Mary Shelley