Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. Robert Southey

Quotes November 23, 2008

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Trials
Quotations by Robert Southey

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. Joseph Roux

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.ExperienceQuotations by Joseph Roux

The right name is an advertisement in itself.AdvertisingQuotations by Claude Hopkins

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.AdversityQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.DreamsQuotations …

“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you …

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.Aid and AssistanceQuotations by Robert Green …

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.ReasonQuotations by Jonathan Swift

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.FictionQuotations by Robert …

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.LiteratureQuotations by Thornton Wilder

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.FuneralsQuotations by Harold Macmillan