“ It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. ”
- Ram Dass- Copy
- 263
“ If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
- 1.1K
“ It was the part of a woman so to refine and educate her mind, as to be the cause of good alone to him whose fate depended on her smile. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. - The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 314
“ Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward some ideas. ”
- Christopher Hill- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”
- Ray Goforth- Copy
- 2.4K
“ West Wing. There are certain circumstances where you don't want it to have that gloss. ”
- John Wells- Copy
- 678
“ It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ”
- Alfred E. Neuman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 818
“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. ”
- Anne Bradstreet- Copy
- 1K
“ He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 992
“ Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. ”
- L. Thomas Holdcroft- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
- 2.9K
“ An old Polish frog… with a huge casket of jewels… and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris. ”
- Sir Cecil Beaton- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A lot of real Chicago lives in the neighborhood taverns. It is the mixed German and Irish and Polish gift to the city, a bit of the old country grafted into a strong new plant in the new. ”
- Bill Granger- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. ”
- L. Thomas Holdcroft- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I have a lot of respect for the Polish people, especially the way they can drink vodka. ”
- Thelonius Monk- Copy
- 3.3K
“ One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ”
- William Feather- Copy
- 3.8K
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