Oquigleys Menu Quotes & Sayings

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake. — Mahatma Gandhi

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them. — Nate Silver

Be Certain:
One cannot possibly guess their way through life. As every creation is manifested with a definite purpose by our Creator, so it must be with all actions we undertake. — Therone Shellman

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society. — Maria Montessori

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't. — Oscar Wilde

I dream of a land of peace
where everyone can live in harmony.
I dream of a land of joy
where everyone can live without agony
I dream of a land of fairy
where everyone can live with beauty.
I dream of a land of forgiveness
where everyone can live with unity.
I dream of a land of tranquility
where everyone can live with diversity.
I dream of a land of love
where we can live in peace as a beloved humanity. — Debasish Mridha

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle. — Julius Wellhausen

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. — Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything. — Johnny Miller

By this management I found an opportunity to see what a most insignificant, unthinking life the poor, indolent wretch, who, by his unactive temper, had at first been my ruin, now lived; how he only rose in the morning to go to bed at night; that, saving the necessary motion of the troops, which he was obliged to attend, he was a mere motionless animal, of no consequence in the world; that he seemed to be one who, though he was indeed alive, had no manner of business in life but to stay to be called out of it. He neither kept any company, minded any sport, played at any game, or indeed did anything of moment; but, in short, sauntered about like one that it was not two livres value whether he was dead or alive; that when he was gone, would leave no remembrance behind him that ever he was here; that if ever he did anything in the world to be talked of, it was only to get five beggars and starve his wife. — Daniel Defoe

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. — Will Rogers