Quotes Around The Zodiac: Virgo

VIRGO QUOTES
- August 22/23 - September 23 -
August 22, 1893 Dorothy Parker:

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.


August 23, 1884 Will Cuppy:

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.


August 24, 1872 Sir Max Beerbohm:

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.


August 25.08.1889 William Feather:

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.


August 26, 1875 John Buchan:

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.


August 27, 1910 Mother Teresa:

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.


August 28, 1749 Johan Wolfgang von Goethe:

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.


August 29, 1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.


August 30, 1927 Geoffrey Beene:

The first two years weren't bad, then every disease we studied, I got. - Geoffrey Beene on why he left medical school for dress designing


August 31, 1924 Buddy Hackett:

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.


September 1, 1939 Lily Tomlin:

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.


September 2, 1852 Paul Bourget;

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.


September 3, 1889 Sadhu Sundar Singh

It is easy do die for Christ. It is difficult to live for Him...


September 4, 1946 Liz Greene, astrologer:

You'll often find Virgo being generous and apparently altruistic, giving freely of his time and skills, especially when it comes to teaching somebody how to do something. He loves to show his competence and is genuinely generous in sharing his knowledge.


September 5, 1861 Sir Walter Raleigh:

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men: if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare, if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.


September 6, 1888 Joseph P. Kennedy:

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.


September 7, 1887 Edith Sitwell:

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.


September 8, 1925 Peter Sellers:

I feel that I want to be very, very, very discriminating...


September 9, 1877 James Agate:

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.


September 10, 1902 Toivo Pekkanen, Finnish writer:

The longer I have lived and the more knowledge I have got from the achievements of people, the narrower and smaller the world of knowledge have appeared to me. And it has become more clear to me that even we are ruled by the forces beyond our knowledge.


September 11, 1885 D. H. Lawrence:

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.


September 12, 1880 H. L. Mencken:

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not b

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