Puffing Adder Quotes & Sayings

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities. — Erich Fromm

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss. — Michael De Luca

Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [ ... ] In marriage especially. [ ... ] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves. — Jane Austen

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it. — Jane Hirshfield

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea. — Peter S. Beagle

I can't make sense of this shit for you, but not understanding it isn't a reason for you to be alone for the rest of your life. If you really see something with this . . . bloke, take it, roll with it. Don't rent your heart out for nothing when I reckon you've both been through enough to deserve a hell of a lot more." It — Garrett Leigh

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

Modesty of a way of living,
makes it worth while.

Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. — John Cleese

Desire for increased wealth is not evil ... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration. — Wallace D. Wattles