Papworth Heating Quotes & Sayings

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. — Xun Zi

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S. — Timothy Murphy

This was a syllogistic monstrosity even worse than the last, thought Wimsey. A man who could reason like that could not reason at all. He constructed a new syllogism for himself. The man who committed this murder was not a fool. Weldon is a fool. Therefore Weldon did not commit this murder. That appeared to be sound, so far as it went. — Dorothy L. Sayers

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor — H.L. Mencken

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests — Dorothy H Cohen

I need but say that my most vivid impression in that respect was a mere trifle: one day, on Million Street in St. Petersburg, a truck packed with jolly rioters made a clumsy but accurate swerve so as to deliberately squash a passing cat which remained lying there, as a perfectly flat, neatly ironed, black rag (only the tail still belonged to a cat
it stood upright, and the tip, I think, still moved). At the time this struck me with some deep occult meaning, but I have since have occasion to see a bus, in a bucolic Spanish village, flatten by exactly the same method an exactly similar cat, so I have become disenchanted with hidden meanings. — Vladimir Nabokov