Phrontisterion Quotes & Sayings

You admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof. Did you learn nothing in Boot Camp?
(Mace to Smitty) — Shelly Laurenston

Quinoa and Banana Muffins — Vesela Tabakova

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. — Frans De Waal

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history. — Alan Brennert

Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email's unique, often confusing rules. — Chad White

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. — Hannah More

May walked slowly around the body, studying it. Putrefaction had been halted in its advance, but the corpse's skin had turned green and black, producing an acrid odour. He found it hard to imagine that this man had recently been walking around, eating in restaurants, watching TV. He was someone's lover, someone's son, but there was almost nothing human left. Without a head his trunk bore an unsettling similarity to something you would find in a meat locker. How would his loved ones feel if they could see him like this? 'Get anything else?' 'It's tricky because the usual decay process has been interrupted by the relatively sterile storage of the body. Usually, after two to three days you get staining on the abdomen. The discolouration spreads, veins grow dark, the skin blisters after a week, tissue starts softening and nails fall off at around the three-week stage, and finally the face becomes unrecognisable as the skin liquefies - — Christopher Fowler

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Love of the soul is happiness to the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person. — Robert M. Gates

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? — Francis Parker Yockey

They'll claim they wanted a legal arrest and a Miranda — Anonymous

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. — Gelett Burgess

If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research. — Andrew Saul