47 Quotes & Sayings By Agona Apell

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar Agona Apell

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it Agona Apell

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble Agona Apell

Might without right makes blight Agona Apell

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate Agona Apell

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents Agona Apell

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at Agona Apell

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success Agona Apell

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers Agona Apell

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented Agona Apell

The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes Agona Apell

Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address Agona Apell

The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice Agona Apell

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve Agona Apell

There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and their own school of thought so that they can live under their own roof at home, at work, and in thought. Agona Apell

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby Agona Apell

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby Agona Apell

The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him Agona Apell

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal Agona Apell

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live Agona Apell

To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed Agona Apell

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works Agona Apell

The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to Agona Apell

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. Agona Apell

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it Agona Apell

While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him Agona Apell

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer. Agona Apell

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come. Agona Apell

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites Agona Apell

The low suffer most the blow of the law Agona Apell

Gender equality remains meaningless until we consider it to mean that femininity and masculinity, when we consider the full scope of capabilities that they each afford humanity, are of equal value to society. Therefore, women who attempt to act out equality while suppressing their femininity do not prove equality but only the advantage of masculinity. Agona Apell

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles Agona Apell

A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do. Agona Apell

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another. Agona Apell

There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw Agona Apell

A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible Agona Apell

The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease. Agona Apell

In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife. Agona Apell

I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them. Agona Apell

Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight Agona Apell

The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares Agona Apell

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true. Agona Apell