Humptys Quotes & Sayings

Ankh-Morpork is a godless city
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'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict.
Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a godawful city', he recovered. — Terry Pratchett

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe
As he does for a polished mirror for the King. — Idries Shah

Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body - volatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world - could seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human. — Brooke Holmes

Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of. — Fred Alan Wolf

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. — Seneca The Younger

A short horse is soone currid. — John Heywood

My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them. — Scott Frost

... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. — Miriam Toews

I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me. — Boris Kodjoe

The way to fight shame and to honor who we are is by sharing our experience with someone who has earned the right to hear it. — Brene Brown

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. — Jimmy Carter

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights. — Herman Melville

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice. — Tyson Gay