Plonkers Quotes & Sayings

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war. — Norman Mailer

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church. — Reggie McNeal

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. — Pam Brown

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life ... Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy? — Aldous Huxley

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher. — Alexander Dubcek

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them. — Prince Charles

She fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her. — Lauren Oliver

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person? — Woody Allen

A love grown old is not the love once new. — Geoffrey Chaucer