Istorybooks Quotes & Sayings

Death is the midwife of very great things ... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God. — Paracelsus

My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie. — Nancy Reagan

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. — Tim Winton

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute! — C.L. Bennett

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned. — Bob Dole

If people would only *Look to the Cookie* - all our problems would be solved — Jerry Seinfeld

I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is good enough for you too. — Charles Portis

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. — Albert Claude

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. — Jonathan Swift