Snaffle Bits Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism and its results
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give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preaches patriotism. Every Emperor and King obtains the more fame the more he is addicted to patriotism. — Leo Tolstoy

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs. — Linda Dillow

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary ... — Kathryn Stockett

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. — Arthur C. Clarke

I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level. — Gloria Estefan

Birth was the death of him. — Samuel Beckett

I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends. — Lucas Till

The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.' — Craig Ferguson