Willemstad Quotes & Sayings

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. — Robert A. Heinlein

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.
-Emilia — William Shakespeare

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone. — Jacqueline Leo

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power. — Martin Luther

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad. — Burnell Taylor

I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen, ... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen. — Charles Dickens

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw

Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas. — Sarah Palin

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to. — Graham Hawkes

I closed my eyes as if to join the maiden as the droplets rearranged themselves, forming a pattern resembling an elongated island on the rim of an undisturbed blankness — Patti Smith

And if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50-200 proglottides, or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself. — Friedrich Engels