Midgleys Eugene Quotes & Sayings

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be! — Cheshire Cat

A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading. — Italo Calvino

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair. — P.G. Wodehouse

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. — Jeff Beck