Quotes - Angus (Gorey, Ireland) Showing 1-30 of 42

#1

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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#2

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

4413 likes

#3

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

4212 likes

#4

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

tags: bluffing, making-do, poker

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#5

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: book, hunger, weapon

1555 likes

#6

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

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#7

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: life, luxury

1286 likes

#8

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

tags: past, yesterday

1090 likes

#9

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: tools

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#10

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#11

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#12

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3587 likes

#13

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

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#14

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6485 likes

#15

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#16

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

2727 likes

#17

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca

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#18

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

1633 likes

#19

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

2840 likes

#20

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#21

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#22

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

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#23

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#24

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2304 likes

#25

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

6691 likes

#26

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#27

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: books, garden, reading

1158 likes

#28

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#29

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

2994 likes

#30

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

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