Bourdonnay Quotes & Sayings

Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. — St John Morris

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — George Eliot

Greatness is not always largeness. — Maud Lindsay

Everything moves way too fast. — Psy

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. — Jodi Picoult

There's no doubt about it, being a policeman warps a man's mind and ruins that sunny faith in his fellow human beings which is the foundation of a lovable character. There seems to be no way of avoiding this. — P.G. Wodehouse

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought in making you. — Khaled Hosseini

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. — C.S. Lewis

I am just typing my reply when another message comes through. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Anyway, I delete what I have started and read what's been sent.
"How daring do you feel?"
Frowning as to what is written on the screen I type, "That's a bit cryptic. What do you mean?"
"Take a look around you, then you can judge how daring you are as I ask you to touch yourself. — A.J. Walters

Really, it was my fickleness, I sometimes think, that they found unendurable. If I had restricted myself to only one of their sweet girls, and married her, and chewed her neck in private, I suppose I might, like any eccentric cousin, have been made almost welcome among family and friends in the circle of the hearth. But perhaps I misjudge what degree of eccentricity even an Englishman can
tolerate. — Fred Saberhagen

The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends. — Dan Inosanto

Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax. — John Edward Williams