Prods Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton

Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time. — Terry Pratchett

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that. — Jacques Parizeau

mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of his voice. I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose. But when I heard that little natural change in his tone my mind went back (I can't say why) to the happy day when I first owned that I loved him. I burst out crying. — Wilkie Collins

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. — Donald G. Mitchell

I am a great scientist. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H.L. Mencken

Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars? — Milan Kundera

Free yourself from the people who cause you drama and poison your soul. You know who they are ... The first ones you thought of when you read this. They have to go. — Steve Maraboli

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendous effect you just reach all sorts of people. Of course if you do it you may very have problems, you have to tread the narrow line. There are plenty of people who don't want students to think, they're afraid of the crisis of democracy. If people start thinking you get all these problems that I quoted before. They won't have enough humility to submit to a civil rule or they'll start trying to press their demands in the political arena and have ideas of their own, instead of beleiving what they're told. And privelage and power typically doesn't want that and so they react and the high school teacher that tries to get students to think may find oppression, firing and so on. — Noam Chomsky

Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves. — Patrick Mendis