Sidler International Quotes

#1. Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

William Cowper

#3. Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity ... Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.

Ron Rash

#4. When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.

Udai Yadla

#5. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

Arthur Helps

#6. What is unthinkable is undoable

Donna Tartt

#7. True strength is delicate.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#8. Beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

#9. Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

William Blake

#10. In order to pursue excellence one must recognize mediocrity.

Geoffroy Birtz