Wienkes Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. — John Milton

Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive. — Richard J. Foster

Justina's life had been exemplary, but by ending it she seemed to have disgraced us all. — John Cheever

An autumn leaf is the corpse of that leaf and what a crazy thing that we love these corpses! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men ... remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest ... If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me. — Immanuel Kant