Columella Quotes

#1. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Isaac Barrow

#2. Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch,

Giles Blunt

#3. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce

#4. It almost occurred;
It almost got hold of my purity,
Just as it headed for the war within my being,
I fed it a light so bright;
It thought it almost had control of me.
Depression is just a dis-ease,
So; Let your mind be free

Nikki Rowe

#5. The earth neither grows old or wears out if it is dunged.

Columella

#6. David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ...

Miriam Toews

#7. I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

#8. The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.

Columella

#9. Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

Columella

#10. we pray that God continues to strengthen her only son" Curtis

A.E. Via

#11. We went down, and at the bottom there was a door, and on the door there was a sign. Two words. BE SURE. Sure of what? We were twelve, we weren't sure of anything.

Seanan McGuire

#12. Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables ...

Columella

#13. We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.

Sakyong Mipham

#14. Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

Warren Beatty

#15. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone

Horace

#16. What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

Sebastian Faulks

#17. There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

E.W. Howe

#18. Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by" - he frowned - "the

Sergei Lukyanenko

#19. I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

David Niven