Smamta Quotes & Sayings

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing ... [such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit. — Tertullian

They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods,
proud in their power over heaven and earth.
They grew strong in their knowledge
but weak in their wisdom,
craving more and still more power,
crushing the defenseless.
_ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV — Mary E. Pearson

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is. — David Horowitz

Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the other head's [Right Whale] expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years. — Herman Melville

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence. — George W. Buck

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. — Joe Mantello

A man got to have a code. - Omar Little — Michael Lewis

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.' — Robin Ince

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. — John McCain

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight. — Ai Weiwei

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets - a vicious circle. — George Du Maurier

Hopefully, he'll be able to persuade Hades not to kill you. That wouldn't be conducive to the start of a good relationship. — Rosanna Leo

We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about. — Shaquille O'Neal

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather