Settanta Coffee Quotes & Sayings

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with
it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times. — Jasper Fforde

Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. — William Cornelius Van Horne

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone. — Francis Of Assisi

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy ... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action. — Amartya Sen

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning. — Theodore Gordon

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. — E. M. Forster

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about. — Harry Stack Sullivan