(218 quotes found)
“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”
Aristotle
“Nothing is permanent.”
Buddha
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”
Yoko Ono
“No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave”
Mark Twain
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
Henri Matisse
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
Irving Fisher
“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind”
Charles Sumner
“An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.”
Andrew Greeley
“It is summer, it is the solsticethe crowd ischeering, the crowd is laughingin detailpermanently, seriouslywithout thought.”
William Carlos Williams
“Up to a third of bundling couples found themselves presented with a permanent souvenir of the occasion”
Bill Bryson