Fluegels Quotes & Sayings

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. — William Burnham Woods

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau

Love has more force than a besieging army. — Mahatma Gandhi

The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy. — Alaa Al Aswany

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight — Josh Sundquist

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth. — John Gimlette

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. — Charles Caleb Colton

our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters. — John Dewey