Dijonnais Quotes & Sayings

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. — Ivan Pavlov

Lots of stupid people were skinny, and yet I couldn't do this incredibly simple thing they could do with seeming ease. — Mindy Kaling

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men. — Noah Webster

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. — Barbara Kingsolver

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. — Judith Martin

I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart. — Dennis Lehane