Stone White Wash Quotes

#1. Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Livy

#2. Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do.

J. Carter Swift

#3. Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius

#4. Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Mental clarity ain't for the faint of heart.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#7. The desire to reach hearts is wise

Maya Angelou

#8. The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin in himself.

Matthew Arnold

#9. And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville

#11. Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.

James Martineau