Crisply Cabled Quotes & Sayings

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. — Charles Eliot Norton

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. — Henry David Thoreau

He concluded that while the Constitution protected freedom of religious belief, the same privilege did not necessarily extend to freedom of religious action. — Robert P. Jones

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth ... — Eberhard Arnold

A giggler always wins his/her enemies. — Euginia Herlihy

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You'll be free or die! — Harriet Tubman

Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus. — Stephen Colbert

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium. — Steve Erickson

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it? — Kevin Mitnick

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings. — Clive Barker