Robert Winship Woodruff Quotes

#1. Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Plutarch

#2. Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name.

George R R Martin

#3. One can become proficient at most anything, I find, with a modicum of aptitude and an eternity to indulge it.

Syrie James

#4. The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The very effect of the education they were given ... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

John Grierson

#6. I hate to be what is called a clever girl
there are too many of that sort now!

Thomas Hardy

#7. Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!

Marissa Meyer

#8. Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

John Muir

#9. And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Rainn Wilson

#11. Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.

Lionel Shriver

#12. are not entitled to see any of it. If you try to

John Grisham