The Philobiblon Quotes & Sayings

All real estate agents should be put on a decommissioned naval frigate which is then towed out into the deepest part of the Atlantic and sunk. It's rather unfortunate that, in recent years, real estate agents have become comedy betes-noires. Rather like lawyers or used car salesmen. Every time they mention their job they probably get people amusingly making the sign of the cross at them or are subjected to some good-natured, humorous ribbing. This has the effect of distorting what I'm trying to say here, which isn't in the nature of a smiling roll of the eyes and a "Tsk, real estate agents, eh?" but rather "All real estate agents should be put on a decommissioned naval frigate which is then towed out into the deepest part of the Atlantic and sunk. — Mil Millington

You were totally unprepared for her."
"That's for damned sure. — Richelle Mead

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. — Henry Adams

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers. — Tony Hale

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying. — Rand Paul

You're all grown up now, so you have to take responsibility for your choices. Otherwise, you ruin everything. — Haruki Murakami

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working. — Jay Leno

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,
in books I see what is yet to come ...
All things decay and pass with time ...
all fame would fall victim to oblivion
if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. — Richard De Bury Translated By E.C.Thomas

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. — John Le Carre