Restauration Quotes & Sayings

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them. — Piero Ferrucci

Do not judge a book by its price! — Claire Hamelin Manning

Men may sail the seas for a lifetime and seldom, if ever, come in contact with the nightmare monsters that inhabit the caves and cliffs of the ocean floor. Gazing down at the slightly muddy water, the men of The Unicorn saw a squirming mass of interwoven tentacles resembling enormous snakes, immensely thick and long and tapering at their free ends to the size of a man's thumb. It was a foul sight, an obscene growth from the dark places of the world, where incessant hunger is the driving force. At one place, down near the bulge of the hull, appeared a staring gorgon face with great lidless eyes and a huge parrot beak that moved slightly, opening and shutting as though it had just crunched and swallowed a meal of warm flesh.
("Fire In The Galley Stove") — William Outerson

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

Everything in moderation, even the truth — Marty Rubin

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos

Stop kidding me, angel! — Piper Shelly

Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in. — William Eggleston

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. — Edward Abbey

Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer. — Lorne Rubenstein

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance. — Luigina Sgarro

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. — John Updike

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness. — Nhat Hanh

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. — Benjamin Franklin

Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. — Daniel Dennett

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness. — Graham Norton