Minorca Quotes & Sayings

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca. — Voltaire

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered
about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life. — Willa Cather

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. — Michael Korda

He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers. — Phyllis Diller

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free. — Paul Monette

We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are. — David Levithan

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity? — Rabih Alameddine

The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm. — Carl Elliott

The meeting was generally felt to be a pleasant one, being composed in a good proportion of those who would talk and those who would listen; — Jane Austen

No one knows the colour of a flower
till it is broken. — Hilda Doolittle

There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it. — Jodie Evans

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist ... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while. — Edward Abbey