Baconians Quotes

#1. The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.

Richard M. Weaver

#2. Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Winston S. Churchill

#5. I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

E. M. Forster

#6. Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

Jon Stewart

#7. However you try to define meditation, it's not that.

Swami Brahmananda

#8. I don't regret what happened there.

Osama Bin Laden

#9. The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends

Alain De Botton

#10. I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

John Lennon

#13. You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Amy Chua

#15. I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Suzy Bogguss

#16. If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.

Oswald Chambers