Lyth Quotes & Sayings

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle.

A new time gives birth to new ideas. — Sunday Adelaja

But for to telle yow al hir beautee,
It lyth nat in my tonge, n'yn my konnyng;
I dar nat undertake so heigh a thyng.
Myn Englissh eek is insufficient.
It moste been a rethor excellent
That koude his colours longynge for that art,
If he sholde hire discryven every part.
I am noon swich, I moot speke as I kan. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. — Matt Lauer

What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams? — Joe Abercrombie

He stared at me. "You have a sexual fantasy in which I'm a virgin?". — Sylvia Day

I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side. — Luis Suarez

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union. — Tim Harford

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible. — Chris Womersley

Etho thought about the last ten orbits of the sun and looked at Guude, "I should have stayed in the forest. — Stampy Miner

I promise not to draw blood, if you promise not to weep. — Deborah Harkness

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. — Harold Prince

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news. — Matt Haig