Whuffo Quotes & Sayings

It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense. — Elaine Morgan

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with. — Dan Poynter

Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over. — Daniel Polansky

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. — Laurie Colwin

Tohr laughed softly. Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l? — J.R. Ward

This was because their English teachers would wince and cover their ears and give them flunking grades and so on whenever they failed to speak like English aristocrats before the First World War. Also: they were told that they were unworthy to speak or write their language if they couldn't love or understand incomprehensible novels and poems and plays about people long ago and far away, such as Ivanhoe. *** The black people would not put up with this. They went on talking English every which way. They refused to read books they couldn't understand - on the grounds they couldn't understand them. They would ask such impudent questions as, Whuffo I want to read no Tale of Two Cities? Whuffo? — Kurt Vonnegut

I don't have an accent. Northerners just talk funny. — Lili St. Crow

What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions. — Neal Shusterman

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler. — Winston Churchill

The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives. — Christine De Pizan

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million. — Parker Palmer

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure. — Kedar Joshi

Rat was talking so seriously, he kept saying to himself mutinously, 'But it WAS fun, though! Awful fun!' and making strange suppressed noises inside him, k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p, and other sounds resembling stifled snorts, or — Kenneth Grahame