Copper Wine Opener Quotes & Sayings

The greatest religion gives suffering to nobody," reads a weather-beaten sign, quoting the Buddha, at Chele La pass, the highest motorable point in the country, near Paro. This maxim is everywhere evident. As a Bhutanese friend and I walked in the mountains one afternoon, he reflexively removed insects from the path and gently placed them in the verge, out of harm's way. Early one morning in Thimphu, I saw a group of young schoolboys, in their spotless white-sleeved ghos, crouching over a mouse on the street, gently offering it food. In Bhutan, the horses that trudge up the steep trail to the Tiger's Nest monastery are reserved for out-of-shape tourists; Bhutanese don't consider horses beasts of burden and prefer not to make them suffer under heavy loads. Even harvesting honey is considered a sign of disrespect for the industrious bees; my young guide, Kezang, admonished me for buying a bottle of Bhutanese honey to take home. (Chastened, I left it there.) In — Madeline Drexler

I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. she said why should I you never put out for me. — Rodney Dangerfield

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time. — Harvey MacKay

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it. — Steven Moffat

The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either. — Jim White

Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough." Today let's remind ourselves that we all receive our beauty, energy, and light from the same inexhaustible source. As we acknowledge this and begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channel opens and we have available to us the infinite vitality, beauty, and magnetism of the life force. — Shakti Gawain

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. — Mary Shelley

Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever 'degree' one is sitting at, that 'degree' of religion he requires. — Dada Bhagwan

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power. — William C. Rhoden

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn. — Gautama Buddha

People from all sides of the political debate... seem to want to interfere with others having access to ideas with which they disagree. In the spirit of free expression. . . I'd suggest a far more appropriate course of action would be to expose and debate those ideas in a concerted effort to make certain that the truth emerges. — Andrew MacDonald

I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me. — Mike Rogers

You need to do more than memorize, Quentin. You must learn the principles of magic with more than your head. You must learn them with your bones, with your blood, your liver, your heart, your deek. He grabbed his crotch through his dressing gown and gave it a shake. — Lev Grossman