Cornflowers Perennial Quotes & Sayings

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. — Marc Bloch

Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads. — Edgerrin James

A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve. — Isaac Asimov

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days. — Ellsworth Huntington

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and breath of Scripture? Can you not see his promised land flowing with peanut butter and jelly; his apocalypse, in which the great whore of Babylon is given the cup of ginger ale of the fierceness of the wrath of God? — Robert Farrar Capon

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions. — Gore Vidal

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes ... They are the supreme realists of the race. — H.L. Mencken

It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him. — Dada Bhagwan