Porks Torques Quotes & Sayings

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face. — Israelmore Ayivor

How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown! — William Shakespeare

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours. — Richard Dawkins

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. — Anthony Trollope

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. — Benjamin Franklin

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. — Andrea Bocelli

I studied history in college, and I've always enjoyed reading, especially political biographies, and I can state that in all my studies and all my experiences, I have come across just one truly honest politician: my great-grandfather, William Eichner. ... According to my grandmother, when he was elected to the General Assembly, he stopped going to religious services and never set foot in a church during his two terms in office, stating, "You can't serve God and politics at the same time". — John W. Hartmann

You might change the props
and the actors, the play of human history is always the same — Orson Scott Card

The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone. — Emma Cline

Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a perpetual characterization of the individual ... It thus assures, in the form of continuity and constraint, a growth, an observation, a qualification. — Michel Foucault

Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking up rocks or whatever it is people are always doing in those blighted countries? What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life. — John Kennedy Toole