James Igoe
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The Art of Life
James Igoe |
| Taste: Before 1325, tast, touch, touching, taste, tasting: borrowed from Old French tast touching, touch, from taster to feel, taste. The sense of aesthetic judgement, a sense of what is appropriate, harmonious, or beautiful, is first recorded in 1671. | The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology |
| Alone he watched the sky go out, dark deepen to its full. He kept his eyes on the engulfed horizon, for he knew what last throes it was capable of. And in the dark he could hear better too, he could hear the sounds the long day had kept from him, human murmurs for example, and the rain on the water. | Samuel Beckett, in Mercier and Camier |
| Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. | Samuel Beckett, in Worstward Ho |
| Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| A full belly doth not engender a subtle wit. | George Pettie |
| Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. | Woody Allen |
| Bad taste makes the day go by faster. | Andy Warhol |
| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of that fact. | George Eliot |
| Confidence does more to make conversation than wit. | La Rouchefoucald |
| The most delicious pleasure is to cause that of other people. | La Bruyere |
| To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. | Oscar Wilde |
| At table, I prefer the witty before the grave...in bed, beauty before goodness; and in common discourse, eloquence, whether or not there be sincerity. | Montaigne |
| Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Etiquette is simply to cherish such a habitual respect for mankind as may prevent us from disgusting our fellow-creatures for the sake of a present indulgence. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Manners adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. | Lord Chesterfield |
| Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are wonderful. | Edward Magnin |
| A life of pleasure requires an aristocratic setting to make it interesesting. | George Santayana |
| Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. | Orison Swett Marden |