Ruffs Quotes

#1. I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

Louis MacNeice

#2. Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

Anne Fadiman

#3. Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Charles Kingsley

#4. I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Clint Eastwood

#5. would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted

Paula McLain

#6. But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain loneliness.

Pittacus Lore

#7. We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Carl Sagan

#8. My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

#9. Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

Peter Drucker

#10. Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Alex Berenson

#11. We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

Martin O'Malley

#12. Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epictetus