Tewodros Quotes & Sayings

A steady flow of complaints about the proliferation of books reverberated into the late 1600s. Intellectuals warned that people would stop talking to each other, burying themselves in books, polluting their minds with useless, fatuous ideas. — Daniel J. Levitin

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. — George Santayana

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away. — Christopher Buckley

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon. — Tewodros II

Kaji's ways," Abban said. "Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries. — Peter V. Brett

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake. — James Marsters

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what. — W. Somerset Maugham

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it. — Jacob K. Javits

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. — Mikhail Bakunin

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt. — Ferran Adria

You would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper. — Richard Armour

You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?"
"No, but I've been to Disney World. — Maureen A. Miller