Mooter Quotes & Sayings

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. — Mario Puzo

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. — Francis Parkman

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. — William Hazlitt

Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week. — Bill Bryson

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman. — Lykke Li

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. — Hugh Jackman

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. — Octavia E. Butler

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women. — Hugo Claus

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar — Rohan Bopanna

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth. — Nazim Hikmet

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin. — Johnny Hunt

A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do. — Napoleon Hill

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. — Rem Koolhaas

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. — David Byrne