Pittsylvania Quotes & Sayings

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee. — Barten Holyday

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows. — William Shakespeare

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. — Amelia Earhart

Puck turned to Sabrina. "What is she doing down there?"
Hiding, I guess."
Puck leaned down and poked his head under the seat. "I found you."
Ms. Smirt shrieked.
Puck lifted himself up to his full height and laughed. "She's fun."
He leaned back down and she screamed again. "I could do this all day. Can I keep her? — Michael Buckley

(Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.) — Kris Vallotton

I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret. What a childish idea. Then Jack would leave, no doubt, so that should would come back, as she would have to do, and her father would be plunged in sorrow of which she was directly the cause, and which would not end in this life. — Marilynne Robinson

The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it. — Chris Weitz

To see justice done, men were prepared to take the law into their own hands. In the Carolinas, bands of vigilantes or Regulators crisscrossed the territory in the late 1760s, stamping out local hooligans and waging war on interlopers. This vigilante attitude was epitomized by a Scots Borders descendant from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, named Captain William Lynch. He ruled as virtual dictator of his county, punishing wrongdoers and warning lawless elements that "we will inflict such corporal punishment on him or them, as to us shall seem adequate to the crime committed or the damage sustained." "Lynch's Law," and the punishments and hangings it inflicted, also became part of American culture - an ugly part, but a legacy of a harsh world and a harsh, unforgiving people. — Arthur Herman

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people. — Elizabeth Warren

I gasp. The profoundness of such a gesture, from a self-seeking fae, touches my soul. The only thing predictable about my future king is his unpredictability. "You once told me you wouldn't be a gentleman. You lied." — A.G. Howard

The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall — Sara Coleridge

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on. — Lance Loud

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia. — Martin Luther

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on. — Tori Amos

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. — Camille Paglia