Receipt Hog Quotes & Sayings

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and ... the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it ... at Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower. — Geraldine Ferraro

It is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult. — Rebecca West

The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war. — Will Rogers

Eyes sparkling with blue open and stare a scalded soul at me. — Poppet

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it. — Patrick Dempsey

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. — John G. Shedd

Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it. — William Shakespeare

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself. — Quentin Dupieux

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. — John Crowley

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. — Edith Stein

Sundays normally were hell. Or just the church pat of it, actually. It wasn't that I was afraid of God, or had anything against Him. It was just that having to be there for two to four hours made me cross, hateful, and blasphemous. Plus it seemed to me that the regulars, the good God-fearing folks, who didn't have diddly-squat, liked to pretend they had a lot to flaunt -- whereas the ones that had a whole lot showed up on holidays and funerals, in fancy cars and dressed to kill, all made possible by money they didn't tithe away every week. That's where Sunday-based faith got you -- broke and with a sore butt! — Shawn Stewart Ruff