Mcguessers Quotes & Sayings

History is history. — Troy Vincent

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection. — Robert Aris Willmott

A pair of USN F-4B Phantom II's prepares to catapult from a USN carrier. Selection of this USN fighter was a departure from normal practise for the USAF. USN — Hugh Harkins

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. — Bertrand Russell

I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty. — David Benioff

I often wondered if the pursuit of the illicit was not tacitly encouraged among those in charge, devoted, as they all were, to profit. I could have been carrying on with a psychopathic serial murderer, and no one would have blinked an eye as long as I knew my lines and hit my mark with efficiency and a modicum of verve. — Kate Mulgrew

Leave me alone; I can't struggle when I have the whole world on my side. — M.F. Moonzajer

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. — Lois McMaster Bujold

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us? — Idries Shah

A small percentage of medieval bodies were buried such; historians thought they were the graves of suicides or witches, though really, historians were such Guesser McGuessers, him the biggest of them all. — Maggie Stiefvater

it didn't bother me to say, 'Hey, Steve, shut up. — Brent Schlender