Edibility Quotes & Sayings

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better. — Charlie Munger

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. — Fredric Jameson

And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday. — Ford Madox Ford

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life. — Jeff Bridges

The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood. — Auliq Ice

This book is written in blood.
Is it written entirely in blood?
No, some of it is written in tears.
Are the blood and tears all mine?
Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different matter.
As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her mothers (i.e. her forebears) grimly but quietly while the apples from the shaken apple tree above her dropped bang thud on her head:
OH, SOMEBODY ASIDES ME IS GONNA RUE THIS HERE PARTICULAR DAY. — Joanna Russ

Words should be the pledges of work, and, like pawn-tickets, have their market price. — Baltasar Gracian

Change is uncomfortable, but it's helpful! — Israelmore Ayivor

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore. — Kiran Desai

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie