Dehortations Quotes

#1. Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

Charles Lamb

#2. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Anonymous

#4. I think people ought to be called what they want to be called.

Janet Kagan

#5. Still, I'm lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else.

Charles Bukowski

#6. You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be

Alejandra Pizarnik

#7. Of course I am!" Mattie stomped her foot, and the entire house shook. "Everyone should be afraid of change - people die in such times.

Ekaterina Sedia

#8. The sins we do, people behold with optics,
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them.

John William Fletcher

#9. We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.

Michele Bachmann

#10. The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.

Archibald Marwizi

#11. It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

Jimi Hendrix