Ons Huis Quotes & Sayings

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man. — Christine De Pizan

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie. — Isabel Gillies

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me. — Lee Majors

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, ... that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. — Lord Byron

A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high range of human possibilities. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. — Aaron Neville

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities. — John Bolton

I've been the fool. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you. — Paula Hawkins

The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan. — John F. Kennedy

By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls avoid sex. — Mary Pipher

Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church
an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they draw the line at once a week. That is to say, Sunday. One day in seven; and even then they do not look forward to it with longing. And so
consider what their heaven provides for them: "church" that lasts forever, and a Sabbath that has no end! They quickly weary of this brief hebdomadal Sabbath here, yet they long for that eternal one; they dream of it, they talk about it, they think they think they are going to enjoy it
with all their simple hearts they think they think they are going to be happy in it! — Mark Twain

Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can keep for themselves.

Instead of taxing production and consumption, we can simply capture land value instead. Maxim: Keep what you earn, pay for what you use.

In such a system, employees, consumers, business owners, business investors, homeowners, farmers and even retirees would be better off. Only those who use land inefficiently or seek to profit from it directly would lose - land speculators, banks, mining companies, extractive industries. — Martin Adams

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal. — Anonymous