Putten Quotes & Sayings

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. — Hilaire Belloc

This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself. — Mary Oliver

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. — Charles Spurgeon

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies. — Steven Pinker

Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare. — Charles Duhigg