Tophatters Orders Quotes & Sayings

Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. — Charles Darwin

While Jesus Christ practiced praying Himself, being personally under the law of prayer, and while His parables and miracles were but exponents of prayer, He laboured directly to teach His disciples the specific art of praying. He said little or nothing about how to preach or what to preach. But He spent His strength and time in teaching men how to speak to God, how to commune with Him, and how to be with Him. — E. M. Bounds

A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine. — George R R Martin

Maybe God had needed her to suffer so she could understand the suffering of others and help them heal. — Paige Dearth

He's [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Ah, had I not taken my life up and given
All that life gives and the years let go,
The wind and honey, the balm and leaven,
The dreams reared high and the hopes brought low?
Come life, come death, not a word be said;
Should I lose you living, and vex you dead?
I never shall tell you on earth; and in heaven,
If I cry to you then, will you hear or know? — Algernon Charles Swinburne

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

at the sky, thinking about space and time and my mother, who was both my past and my present, and who, for all I knew, was up there twinkling somewhere. He — Camille Pagan

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles. — Epicurus

Happiness as restricted access. Happiness as a country club, a resort, an old boys club for certain boys only. Happiness as body shame, as racism, as transphobia, as misogyny. These are some joys that need killing. — Erin Wunker