Flashman Papers Quotes & Sayings

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes. — Michael Frayn

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization. — Nicholas Kristof

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else. — Yanni

Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year. — Michael Faraday

Discipline and demand without being demeaning. — Don Meyer

If you have life, strength and time, it is enough to perform your sacred task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. — John Burroughs

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe. — Alyssa Sutherland

We may stop lovin' to watch Bugs Bunny, but he can't take the place of my honey. — Eddie Cochran

Look, lust, and leave, knowing I could never have one of them for myself. — Malachy McCourt

It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth. — J.M. Coetzee