Pyrgo Quotes & Sayings

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience. — Willard Van Orman Quine

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — Francoise Sagan

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be
all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all. — Abraham Lincoln

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it. — Charles Spurgeon

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. — Edward Thomas

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.] — Jean De La Bruyere

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it. — Mahatma Gandhi

True love never wants to get, just give.
True love never can hurt because it always forgives. — Debasish Mridha

I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad. — Steven Wright

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were. — Conor Oberst

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm. — Andrew O'Hagan

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was. — Glenn Beck

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out. — Nicholas Winton

The ignorant is a house without windows; the intellectual is a window without house! One lives without light; other lives in too much light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream. — Marcel Proust

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo. — Jay Samit