Best Quotes
“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”
-- George MacDonald
“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”
-- Donna Leon
“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”
-- Michelangelo