We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. – Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims Category: Bores
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. – William Dean Howells Category: Bores
Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo Gravina Category: Bores
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell Category: power
[The] combination of mystical richness and bold adaptations of poetic forms is the key to [Rumi’s] popularity… – Jawid Mojaddedi Category: Rumi
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. – Janine Turner Category: Forgiveness