Quemadmodum Taverner Quotes & Sayings

The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what it means. What are you talking about!!"
"I didn't know how boats this big work, alright. — Trenton Oldfield

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. — Robert Southey

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. — James Madison

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. The — Corrie Ten Boom

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me. — Bear Grylls

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me. — Caroline George

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature. — George Henry Lewes

But he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. — Anna Sewell

I'm not difficult, I'm decisive. If a woman puts you on hold, she's considered a bitch. — Judith Fitzgerald

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. — John Milton

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. — Joseph Addison

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. — Jenny Shipley

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now. I'm not sure if he'll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he's the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything. He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he's really good. — Adam Schlesinger

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion. — Pierre Alechinsky

At this moment in time I did not say them things. — Glenn Hoddle