"People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#People Quotes #Fool Quotes #Relation Quotes

“I donâ€™t want to sleep alone,â€ she says gently. And I donâ€™t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.”
“I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.”

Source : Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”
“He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.”

Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
“You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.”
“All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every deathÂ ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395
“The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.”
“Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.”
“My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, Edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 7, 1960.

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