bob marley quotes and sayings

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968



Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown



Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~Bertrand Russell, attributed



Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner



Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea



We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ~Robert M. Hutchins, News Summaries, 31 December 1977



I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth



Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown



A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~Mark Twain



The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979



It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. ~Colonel Potter



He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum



You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard



The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs



Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb



If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ~Samuel Butler



Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock



The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb



He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo