Inditing Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all. — Hermann Hesse

The last thing I needed was a parting shot of Derek Bast's face -- God's best endorsement for birth control. — Jordan Dane

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't. — Jane Fonda

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Who needs men when they can have chocolate?
Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that — Trisha Ashley

Bless you, my friend. I hope you find God's love some day. — Gary Chapman

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last. — Samuel Johnson

Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think. — Kathy Lette

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. — Helen Keller

This is the corpse road, she said, aligning her body with the invisible path. As she did, she could feel something inside her begin to hum agreeably, a sensation very much like the satisfaction that came from aligning book spines on a shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden. — Anthony Trollope

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive. — Dean Koontz

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. — Robert Englund

I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand. — Elizabeth Bear