Eddison Quotes & Sayings

What magic there is in a girl's smile! It is the raisin which, dropped in the yeast of male complacency, induces fermentation. — P.G. Wodehouse

Friendship is direactly proportional to relationship, provided love is constant — Ernest Eddison

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. — Eric Rucker Eddison

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect. — Desiderius Erasmus

The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub. — Frankie Andreu

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone — Eric Rucker Eddison

A father is a person who give you feather to further. — Ernest Eddison

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. — Maxwell Maltz

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. — Ethan Zuckerman

Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays. — Peter McWilliams

The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not. — Eric Rucker Eddison

I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working. — Creed Bratton

The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny. — Simon Young

The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved. It's about declaring your table a safe zone, a place of warmth and nourishment. — Shauna Niequist

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot. — Gillian Jacobs

I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were they scorned and trampled on by his opposites. — E.R. Eddison

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. — Eric Rucker Eddison

Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire? — Eric Rucker Eddison

Gardens are a form of autobiography. — Sydney Eddison