"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish | Family | 2 bookmarks

"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell | Imitation | 1 bookmarks

"No one ever became great by imitation."

Johnson, Samuel | Greatness | 2 bookmarks

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

De Chateaubriand | Originality | 3 bookmarks

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita | Women | 2 bookmarks

"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

Mencken, H. L. | Agreement | 3 bookmarks

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."

Auden, W. H. | Conceit | 2 bookmarks

"See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]"

Bible | Conceit | 3 bookmarks

"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa | Jesus Christ | 3 bookmarks

"Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky."

Walker, Alice | Jesus Christ | 2 bookmarks