Tag: quotable

Quotable: U. A. Fanthorpe

“Maintenance is the sensible side of love.” –U. A. Fanthorpe, from her poem Atlas, which opens with the memorable line, “There is a kind of love called maintenance, Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it”.

Quotable: Tim Challies

“But we are rarely served by haste. We are never served by emphasizing haste at the expense of godly character.” Read the whole article here.

Quotable: M.T. Anderson

“We forget men must be paid to kill. Even an act as simple as leveling a village is costly; rapine is not cheap; and children, I am afraid, will not burn themselves.” –M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I

Quotable: Herbert V. Prochnow

“The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.”

Quotable: Matthew Henry

“The devil’s instruments must share in the devil’s punishments.”

Quotable: John Piper

“I’m not an emotional person; I’m a Minnesotan.” (out of context quote from a sermon illustration)

Quotable: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

Quotable: Geoffrey Chaucer

“He is no cuckold who has no wife.” –Chaucer, The Miller’s Tale

Quotable: Benjamin Franklin

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

Quotable: Charles Spurgeon

“There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write ‘damnation’ with your fingers.” —Charles Spurgeon via Tim Challies