Potholder Patterns Quotes & Sayings

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen

no genius that ever won acclaim did so without a measure of indulgence. Name me any man you like who had a celebrated reputation, and I'll tell you what the age he lived in forgave him, what it turned a blind eye to in his work. — Seneca.

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession. — Stephen Kinzer

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder. — J.D. Mader

Why? Why don't you want to go with me?"
She huffed. "It's not that I don't want to go with you, it's that I'm not going at all."
"So you do want to go with me."
Cinder locked her shoulders. "It doesn't matter. Because I can't."
"But I need you. — Marissa Meyer

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. — Paul Theroux

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it. — Jonah Goldberg

Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished. — Edna O'Brien

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." — Thomas Carlyle

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing. — J. Ogden Armour

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down ... and better than the monster you used to be ... — Paul Nat