Mettlesome Mounts Quotes & Sayings

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man — Anonymous

People quickly forget that people are people. — Jack Tatum

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions ... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising. — Bridget Riley

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him. — J.K. Rowling

There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks out in wonder at the beauty of the world. — Heather K. O'Hara

When the law interferes with people's pursuit of their own values, they will try to find a way around. They will evade the law, they will break the law, or they will leave the country. Few of us believe in a moral code that justifies forcing people to give up much of what they produce to finance payments to persons they do not know for purposes they may not approve of. When the law contradicts what most people regard as moral and proper, they will break the law - whether the law is enacted in the name of a noble ideal such as equality or in the naked interest of one group at the expense of another. Only fear of punishment, not a sense of justice and morality, will lead people to obey the law. — Milton Friedman

Asking the Department of Agriculture to promote healthy eating was like asking Jack Daniels to promote responsible drinking. — Denise Minger

The greatest discovery is self-discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming. — Clive Thompson

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero

He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger ... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. — William Shakespeare

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life. — Jonas Mekas

Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.
I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die. — A.E. Housman

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died. — Ally Spina

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi

The rest of the place was ransacked, a word for something that is fun to do to someone else's room, but no fun to have done to yours. — Lemony Snicket