Beefeaters Quotes & Sayings

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book. — Louis Sachar

And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.
"As good as gold," said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see. — Charles Dickens

Nothing is more mediocre than following others mindlessly. — Saru Singhal

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to. — Patrick Stump

You missed that I'm a computer specialist, and I know that the U.S. government would have no problem forging a passport for me," he said. The interrogators quickly took the passport back and never talked about it again. Scenarios like that made me very paranoid about the government making up something about me. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

If you can't laugh at yourself, don't worry others will ... ! — James A. Murphy

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty. — William James

Fiction is the lie that illuminates a greater truth. — Kevin Fox

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks. — Clint Eastwood

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family. — Aesop

You're afraid to do anything but wish for things to happen to you — Danielle Paige

I was proud to be brown in my own way. Well, I was at school; at school I was brown about the funky stuff that came with being vegetarian, like being really arrogant about it, declaring proudly to a room full of beefeaters when Mad Cow disease initially broke that it was 'Vishnu's way of telling y'all to stop eating and start worshipping'. — Nikesh Shukla

I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned.
Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious! — Sharon Creech