Giobbi On Vernon Quotes & Sayings

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery — Oscar Wilde

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness. — Maimonides

If I had three wishes for my country, they would be these: keep fighting, keep moving forward, and don't act like a douchebag. — Michael Ian Black

avoid food products that make health claims. — Erin Moore

There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai. — Daniel Snyder

In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge. — David Haye

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. — Elliott Abrams

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training. — Henry Ward Beecher

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. — Maria Mitchell

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. — Khalil Gibran

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon. — Edward Abbey

Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language. — Gwenno