Strassburg Quotes & Sayings

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste - He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name. — T. S. Eliot

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill. — George Will

I spent years convincing myself that regular people could fight, and I still think we can. But we need the same weapons our enemies have." Megan — Brandon Sanderson

I wondered, what other gifts I got bottled up inside me? That question had started to gnaw on me some. — Susan Crandall

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Oliver DeMille

We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses! — Gottfried Von Strassburg

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect. — Hedy Lamarr

'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again. — William Forsythe