Confections Cupcakes Quotes & Sayings

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. — Publilius Syrus

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way - then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering. — Nick Flynn

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy. — Frank Herbert

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out. — George Bernard Shaw

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements. — Ariel Sharon

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to. — Owen Feltham

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives. — Carre Otis

Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. — Susan Cain

I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons. — Paula Garces

He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . . — Will Durant

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted

[Someone had left the lid off the big tin of fairies and, if they were to be used up before they went off then lovely, moist, stale-fairy cakes were the only option. Nota bene, years later all of the magic would be taken out of these little confections and they would become known in "global" "English" rather more drearily as "cupcakes". This is why you can no longer buy tins of either fresh or dried fairies except in speciality comestible shops.] — Ian Hutson