Ribstone Watch Quotes & Sayings

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. — Max Lerner

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary. — Madeline Claire Franklin

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. — Robin McKinley

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals. — Nicolas Gomez Davila