Caracal Quotes & Sayings

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background. — Sigmund Freud

They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.."
They came back yesterday, they came back home," was the answer. "They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward.
Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons
and at last they come home. — Carl Sandburg

He writes nothing whose writings are not read. — Martial

The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all need the cleansing that comes through applying the full effects of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. — Henry B. Eyring

Morels are ugly in the skillet. The caps look like the scrotums of leprechauns, the stems like the tusks of fetal elephants. — Tom Robbins

On a farm, you can get very bored. — Godfrey Hounsfield

One example is worth a thousand arguments. — William E. Gladstone

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux. — Rodney S. Quinn

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. — Dave Barry

We all imagine happy endings to such books, pick out the page, the paragraph, in which we would step in and pluck the innocents to safety. — Ada Palmer

Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. — L. Frank Baum

We live by information, not by sight. — Baltasar Gracian

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. — Billy Wilder