Barleycorn Quotes

#1. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Robert Burns

#2. In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

Walt Whitman

#3. John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.

Jack London

#4. John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

Jack London

#5. Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Pindar

#6. Do what makes you happy

Kay Holden

#7. I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

Sasha Cohen

#8. Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. Is it because in my soul I'm just as much a murderer? he asked himself. Something remote, but burning, stung his soul.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Bent down and plucked the fae's sword free of the fleshy mess that had once been his hand. Mental note: Don't mess with the spiders.

Pippa DaCosta

#12. Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Alan Moore

#13. Merchant's Ware, the city most people thought of as the real city. Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd each be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-aboveboard way known as doing business.

Terry Pratchett

#14. She said further that this Geneva blood drinker was tragically in love with Lestat.

Anne Rice

#15. My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee

Philip II Of Macedon

#16. Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Winston Graham