Quotes About Saikaku

#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.

Ihara Saikaku

#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 police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

Bernie Sanders

#10. I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'

Bill Hader

#11. In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Ihara Saikaku

#12. There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Saikaku Ihara

#13. Those who start later, tend to achieve greater

Shayan Italia

#14. I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles.

Saikaku Ihara

#15. Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Ihara Saikaku

#16. I have to return some videos,

Bret Easton Ellis

#17. 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

#18. Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water.

Ihara Saikaku

#19. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

Annie Dillard

#20. I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Kenny G

#21. His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

Liz Farrelly

#22. To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Ihara Saikaku

#23. 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

#24. It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

Amanda Donohoe

#25. Read it. Just - don't lose it. It ... belonged to a friend of mine.

Heather Demetrios

#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