Highly Auspicious Signs

Famous quotes containing the words highly, auspicious and/or signs:

    “The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

    “I find my zenith doth depend upon
    A most auspicious star, whose influence
    If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes
    Will ever after droop.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)