Oaten Peafowl Quotes & Sayings

Quit stalling with the good bits! — Jennifer DeLucy

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

I keep on fighting ... but I can't keep going on this way — Yukiru Sugisaki

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. — Felix Frankfurter

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — John Locke

I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else. — Marc Behm

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. — Bryant H. McGill

The way people behave depends on the basic moral tests and norms in a society. Naturally, the Khmer Rouge, Al-Qaeda terrorists, respectable middle-class Europeans, and, say, members of the Komosol in the 1930's, would behave quite differently in identical situations. But that wouldn't change the essential point. The ration of altruists and egoists, even among Benedictine monks and members of the Gestapo, is the same. It's just that their altruism and egotism are expressed differently. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Had I known but yesterday what I know today,
I'd have taken out your two gray eyes
And put in eyes of clay;
And had I known but yesterday you'd be no more my own
I'd have taken out your heart of flesh
And put in one of stone — Tam Lin Neville

Dove turned and gave him a "what the fuck are you doing - at least you're wearing pants, fudge dick" look. — Debra Anastasia

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music. — Eve Ensler