Chilembwe Lodge Quotes

#1. But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

Dave Eggers

#2. Oh, America, how I began to love your country! What miles of silences God has made in you for contemplation! If only people realized what all your mountains and forests are really for!

Thomas Merton

#3. I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

Lesley Boone

#4. The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Enid Blyton

#5. They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

#6. My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!

Teresa Bloomingdale

#7. The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

Eugene Kennedy

#8. It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

Adam Brown

#9. A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

#10. True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Johann Kaspar Lavater