Curculio Quotes & Sayings

Only a fool would turn away the love of a good woman, and I was no longer a fool. — Christin Lovell

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you? — Thomas Sowell

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it. — Charles Krauthammer

When someone talks about their problems, it doesn't just mean they're complaining, it means they trust you enough to tell you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A business that doesn't change is a business that is going to die. — Frank Perdue

Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control. — Emmuska Orczy

It had been a perfect nap
the sort a man runs into now and again by chance ... — Charles Finch

Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.
I do.'
Which would you choose?'
There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.'
But suppose you had to choose?'
Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.'
There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha! — Patrick O'Brian

His shirt, tie, and trousers were folded small as an apology on a faded blue-velvet chair. — Rachel Joyce

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of. — Criss Jami

Sometimes to be a good parent ... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough. — Daniel Pearce

I don't know any girls who appreciate getting a close-up snap of a guy's privates out of nowhere. — Holly Carpenter

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others. — Geoffrey Wood