Carrithers Auction Quotes & Sayings

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow. — Henry David Thoreau

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. — Jane Austen

Death is an ascension to a better library. — John Donne

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love. — Lady Gaga

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live. — Pete Seeger

Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution. — Jonathan Wells

The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.] — Ovid