Quotes by Authors - Page 179

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Christina Baldwin
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.
Thomas à Kempis
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
Mark Twain
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Anonymous
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'
Dean William R. Inge
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Thomas Fuller
A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.
Arthur Pendenys
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madame Benoit
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
Anonymous
Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon
Say it with flowers.
Patrick F. O'Keefe
Of what are you afraid my child? inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh sir! the flowers they are wild " replied the timid creature.
Peter Newell
It is the same in love as in war a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Marguerite de Valois
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
Flirtation attention without intention.
Max O'Neil
Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
Angling is an innocent cruelty.
George Parker
God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
Izaak Walton
As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.
Anonymous
There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.
John Lyly
Feast and your halls are crowded Fast and the world goes by.
Ella Wheeler Wilc
We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
Leo Buscaglia
I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Jung
Only your mind can produce fear.
Anonymous
Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.
William McFee
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.
Brenda Ueland
We fear the thing we want the most.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.
Elizabeth Gawain
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
All fear is bondage.
Anonymous
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
Angela L. Wozniak
Fear is the prison of the heart.
Anonymous
If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd C. Douglas
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Harry A. Overstreet
Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William Faulkner
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.
John M. Wilson
When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
Robertson Davies