Rnrlf Quotes & Sayings

Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses to teach himself, and goes about learning of others, to whom he never even says Thank you. — Plato

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph. — Larry Watson

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies. — Erma Bombeck

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ... — Marianne Moore

[Sex] is only a mirage, floating in shimmering mockery before the bulging eyes of middle-aged men as they stumble with little whimpers toward the double bed, that somewhere there is a person that will evoke from them sensations of which they dimly dream they are capable. — Quentin Crisp

If you get up in the morning and wear a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some flip-flops, it's a signal that you might be going to the beach. If you get up in the morning and you wear a breast plate and a back plate and a cape and a pair of golden Satanic horns on your head, it's quite clear that you're doing something else. — Tom Hiddleston

My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like. — Mark Frauenfelder

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere

My mother is my pastor
She teaches me the Bible
I love her as my mentor
She tells me to be humble! — Israelmore Ayivor

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual. — Gloria Steinem

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. — Mario Puzo

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews. — Walter Wink