“To the King’s favor quite restored again, Reynard sets forth with all that lordly train, Upon his pious journey to be shriven,— Much the same road that Lawyers go to Heaven;—” —from Reynard the Fox
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Category: quotable
“…some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They’ve never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as […]
“There is no such thing as a free cat.”
“He is no cuckold who has no wife.” –Chaucer, The Miller’s Tale
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“My mom said if I break one more bone she’s gonna break the rest of ’em.”
“Far better than the sweet harmonies of a few trained singers is the rough and hale sound of pardoned criminals, delighting with one voice in their Savior.”
CARL: When you say that you’re bored what do you mean by that? Are there are no libraries to go to? Are there no have books to read? Are there no languages to learn? Are there no places to visit? AIMEE: I know when my kids say, ‘I’m bored,’ that means they don’t have access to entertainment. […]
“What we often mean by legalism is someone who is more serious about obedience than I am.”
“I grew up an Irish Presbyterian, so what that means is when we go to rugby matches and beat England like we did at the weekend, we scream and shout and roar and jump our hands in the air. Then we going to church on Sundays and talk about being miraculously saved from Hell and […]