Deserted Quotes

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

In a deserted village the jackass is king.

Indian Proverb

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

Mother Teresa

So how many a town did We destroy while it was unjust, so it was fallen down upon its roofs, and (how many a) deserted well and palace raised high.

Quran

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

When you are confronted with terrible hardships, and no one offers you any support, when your friends turn into enemies, and even your relatives have deserted you, and when all support has given way, and all hope has been lost - if you then come to remember the Supreme Lord God, even the hot wind shall not touch you.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Seneca

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

He who wants to sell his honor will always find a buyer. The garlic complained to the onion, You stink! If you count your friends mistakes, he will desert you. Many wars have been caused by a single word.

Arabian Proverb

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

George Bernard Shaw

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

John Christian Bovee

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.

Zambian Proverb