Allowing Yourself To Settle Quotes & Sayings

When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man feels a thrill and a half temptation to wish it were true, he is no judge of such things at all. When he is assured, on the best Red Indian authority, that a primitive hero carried the sun and moon and stars in a box, unless he clasps his hands and almost kicks his legs as a child would at such a charming fancy, he knows nothing about the matter. — G.K. Chesterton

Ask any honest sage if they were an expert at something the first time they tried it, and they'll giggle and probably give you a caramel. — Jon Acuff

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has. — Edna Ferber

2 days to the U.N. — Joel C. Rosenberg

It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than vapor floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower. — Joseph Conrad