Flonkerton Quotes & Sayings

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet. — Marion LeRoy Burton

I can write pretty much anywhere. — David Mitchell

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people. — Jay Weatherill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. — Winston S. Churchill

Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision. — Joseph J. Ellis

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. — Joseph Addison

When challenges present themselves, practice will permit you to draw on the wisdom and learning you cultivate as you learn to lead valiantly. — Catherine Robinson-Walker

She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and to have concentrated only on the few things I have concentrated on
her, for one. My children, for another. Sportswriting and being an ordinary citizen. This did not leave me well enough armored for the unexpected, was her opinion. She said this was because I didn't know my parents very well, had gone to a military school, and grown up in the south, which was full of betrayers and secret-keepers and untrustworthy people, which I agree is true, though I never knew any of them. — Richard Ford

My requirements in a husband are simple," she informed him smoothly. "All I want is a man who will hold me above everything else, including his horse, his fortune, and his pride."
Hearing that simple yet seemingly impossible declaration was like a blow to Grey's solar plexus. She was going to be so disappointed, the poor thing. How perverted was it of him to secretly rejoice over her wants? She might find a man who could love her more than his horse, perhaps even more than his fortune, but never would she find a man willing to sacrifice his pride-not without that same man coming to hate her for it eventually.
"More than his horse?" he joked. "My dear girl, you ask too much. — Kathryn Smith

To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,
And Following its path, we took no care
To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far,
through a round aperture I saw appear
Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,
Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars. — Dante Alighieri

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith. — Paulo Coelho

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder ... no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed ... but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime. — Susan B. Anthony

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. — Oscar Wilde

No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found. — Tanya Masse

perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war. — Ernest Hemingway,