Black-flag Quote by Ted Anthony Roberts

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but…

— Wallace Stegner

“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most had the…

— Cara Lynn James

“Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life—blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.”

— Bear Grylls

“Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They”

— Amor Towles

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble…

— Chelsea G. Summers

“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives) might be…

— Alain de Botton

“There are thousands of ways to be attractive in this world.”

— Leta Blake

“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the…

— John Williams

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks