Knucklebones Quotes & Sayings

Beware of the person of one book — Thomas Aquinas

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work. — David Petersen

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. — Alice Walker

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.' — Gerolamo Cardano

Gold makes the ugly beautiful. — Moliere

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' — George Saunders

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

To love was to regain the capacity to remember a world without names, to recall by virtue of the whorl above the beloved's knucklebones and to blue of the veins beneath the skin the unbearable fragility of mornings in this counrty, to find October odors trapped in the skinfolds between her toes along with the scent of talcum powder and soap and human sweat. — Ninotchka Rosca

It seemed like folly to imagine that one could fill a house (or a tent) with relatives and still expect to have a pleasant vacation. — Emma Straub

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself. — Erich Fromm

Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll. — Jason Mraz