Censur Quotes

#1. I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

#2. It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

Jon Kyl

#3. He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

Lev Grossman

#4. Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Aristotle.

#7. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Charles De Montesquieu

#8. Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind ... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men
thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall
yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#9. Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.

Anonymous

#10. At home, she sulked with extravagance, and I learned early that silence was anything but peaceful. She was always upset about some slight, real or imagined, and more than capable of creating a full-blown crisis out of thin air.

Sara Gruen

#11. Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#12. Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

Raheel Farooq

#13. Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Martha Beck

#14. Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar."
The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully.

John Flanagan