Let not ambition mock ordsprog

en Let not ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys and destiny obscure; / Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, / The short and simple annals of the poor.
  Thomas Gray

en A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
  Sir Walter Scott

en The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.

en "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision
  Lewis Carroll

en Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile Is earned
  Emily Dickinson

en Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
  Emily Dickinson

en In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.
  Joseph Conrad

en The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
  Mary McCarthy

en Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness.
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en My daughter can hear and see and smile and communicate, and she can enjoy life. She can look at you and express her love with her eyes and a smile. I'm so blessed that we have her here with us.

en Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
  Joseph Heller

en Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?
  Horace

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en Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

en You hear about poor Houston and poor Denver and poor this team and that, but we lose one of the top five players in the game and a weapon like (Barbosa) and it's like an afterthought. Yeah, we should be even better, but we know we're going to get better, and that's a good feeling.

en Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
  Mother Teresa of Calcutta


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