Giovanni Ruffini Famous Quotes & Sayings
16 Giovanni Ruffini Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.— Giovanni Ruffini

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.— Giovanni Ruffini

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.— Giovanni Ruffini

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.— Giovanni Ruffini

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.— Giovanni Ruffini

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.— Giovanni Ruffini

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.— Giovanni Ruffini

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.— Giovanni Ruffini

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.— Giovanni Ruffini

A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.— Giovanni Ruffini

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.— Giovanni Ruffini

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.— Giovanni Ruffini

Husband and wife,— Giovanni Ruffini
so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.— Giovanni Ruffini
