Adrianople Quotes & Sayings

I didn't realize we were playing a game, he says. I smile. That was the same line he had used during our second meeting. — Kasie West

The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth. — Sunday Adelaja

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill

Malthus's school was in the centre of the town of Adrianople, and was not one of those monkish schools where education is miserably limited to the bread and water of the Holy Scriptures. Bread is good and water is good, but the bodily malnutrition that may be observed in prisoners or poor peasants who are reduced to this diet has its counterpart in the spiritual malnutrition of certain clerics. These can recite the genealogy of King David of the Jews as far back as Deucalion's Flood, and behind the Flood to Adam, without a mistake, or can repeat whole chapters of the Epistles of Saint Paul as fluently as if they were poems written in metre; but in all other respects are as ignorant as fish or birds. — Robert Graves

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

When one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. — George Eliot

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. — Homer

I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly. — Ziauddin Yousafzai