Curmudgeon Quotes and Sayings

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Famous Quotes

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
~Author : Heraclitus Inspirational Sayings

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
~Author : Marie Curie Nice Quotes

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Great Sayings

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Meaningful Sayings

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
~Author : Sharon Salzberg Wise Quotes

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
~Author : Jean Kerr Motivational Sayings

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
~Author : Joseph Addison Famous Quotes

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
~Author : Molly Haskell Inspirational Sayings