Apothecaries Measures Quotes & Sayings

Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,
And marigolds all in a row. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty. — Colin Powell

But even in my life I saw the leaching of spirit. A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength. Light, warmth, food, water, were free to all men, and gained by a minimum of effort. So the people of Ampridatvir, released from toil, gave increasing attention to faddishness, perversity, and the occult. — Jack Vance

Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life? Have you some worthier goal? Have you a purpose that will justify you in your own eyes to some greater extent? — Isaac Asimov

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy. — Jakaya Kikwete

When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights. — Wiz Khalifa

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar ... Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon

Or drive up to his parents' house, one of you plugging into the car's stereo an outlandish playlist, with which you would both sing along, loudly, being extravagantly silly as adults the way you never were as children. As you got older, you realize that really, there were very few people you truly wanted to be around for more than a few days at a time, and yet here you were with someone you wanted to be around for years, even when he was at his most opaque and confusing. — Hanya Yanagihara

What's interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there's a line that you don't cross. — Michael Carroll

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. — Morgan Freeman

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. — Gloria Allred

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good? — Claire Messud

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself. — Gene Hackman

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. — Chris Robinson

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. — Rachel Naomi Remen