Showing posts with label Jilly Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jilly Cooper. Show all posts

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in
a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the
prejudices of their education.’
- John Locke

People have enough ideas. The real question is
“Which ideas are you going to use?”.’
- Michael Ray

"What people think of as the moment of discovery
is really the discovery of the question.’
- Jonas Salk


"The only true wisdom is in
knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates


The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the
direction of the wind. But the goodness of a
person spreads in all direction.
- Chanakya


"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated
with firmness, can be trained to do most things."
- Jilly Cooper

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

"Forty for you, sixty for me. And
equal partners we will be."
- Joan Rivers

"The only time a woman really succeeds
in changing a man is when he is a baby."
- Natalie Wood

"Most conversations are simply monologues
delivered in the presence of witnesses."
- Margaret Millar

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise
to build a bridge even where there is no river."
- Nikita Khrushchev

"I love the long grass coming
up to meet the willows."
- Jilly Cooper

"The maxims of men reveal their characters."
- Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues