Pittier Of Fools Quotes & Sayings

Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
Leave in its track the toiling plough;
The rifle and the bayonet-blade
For arms like yours were fitter now;
And let the hands that ply the pen
Quit the light task, and learn to wield
The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
The charger on the battle-field. — William C. Bryant

Marcus's, or Evelyn's? Usually — Veronica Roth

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace. — Robert F. Hartley

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. — Charles H. Townes

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. — Edward W. Said

By all appreciable signs, they loved; they had looked love, with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered by the way; they had even spoken love, in those gushes of passion when their spirits darted forth in articulated breath, like tongues of long-hidden flame; and yet there had been no seal of lips, no clasp of hands, nor any slightest caress, such as love claims and hallows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. — Tom Robbins

I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.' — Demetri Martin

Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it. — Adrien Rouquette

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston S. Churchill

A vertical battled pitted the Italians against the Austrians, who were starving up in the mountains.
The Italians also sent men to the firing squad "to set an example". I couldn't make up my mind which was more appalling: the mining war or the mountain war. And between an Italian general and a French one, I wouldn't've known which one to shoot first. — Jacques Tardi

It is the responsibility of each new generation to restore the authority of God in every sphere of life — Sunday Adelaja