Beauty, Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead

Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful.
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

― Richelle Mead (1976- ), Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy

Appearance, Latin Proverb

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.

- Latin Proverb

Present, Oogway

Panda: How is Shifu ever going to turn me into the Dragon Warrior? I mean, I'm not like the five. I've got no claws, no wings, no venom. Even mantis has those thingies. Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.
Oogway,: Quit. Don't quit. Noodles. Don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called a "present".

- Grand Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda

Cat, Ryan Wolfe

Natalia: What does a girl usually do before a date?
Ryan: Make me wait in the living room with her cat?

- CSI: Miami, Power Trip (7.09)

Happiness, Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

- Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

Advice, Book of Proverbs

Face a bear robbed of her cubs, but never fools in their folly!

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 12

[17:12] Humorous hyperbole. An outraged dangerous beast poses less danger than a fool.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Spring, Diane Frolov

Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

- Diane Frolov

Wisdom, Chinese Proverb

A good rat will not injure the grain near its own hole.

- Chinese Proverb

Moon, George Carlin

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin (1937-2008)

Love, Anonymous

Love is the delightful interval between meeting and discovering that looks like .

- Anonymous

From (Laura) Haddock to haddock.

Love, John Barrymore

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

- John Barrymore (1882-1942)

Bird, Bosnian Proverb

Latin: Bolje vrabac u ruci, nego golub na grani.
Cyrillic: Боље врабац у руци, него голуб на грани.
Translation: A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the branch.

- Bosnian Proverb; Kovačević (1991). Srpsko-engleski rečnik idioma, izraza i izreka. Filip Višnjić. p. 48.

Proverbs from all Bosnian speaking parts of the world.

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English equivalent

¶ A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bosnian_proverbs

Advice to Presbyters, The First Letter of Peter

Advice to Presbyters.

Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly. Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

+ 1 Peter 5,2-4

http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/
http://www.usccb.org/bible/1peter/5

The Temptation of Jesus, Gospel of Luke

The Temptation of Jesus.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time.

+ Gospel of Luke 4,13

http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/4

Nature, Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb