Edward John Trelawny Quotes

#1. Those that come to see me, do me honour; and those that stay away, do me a favour.

Edward John Trelawny

#2. A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.

Edward John Trelawny

#3. Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

Edward John Trelawny

#4. Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

Edward John Trelawny

#5. I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

Anne Robinson

#6. Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

R.C. Sproul

#8. You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Don DeLillo

#9. I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

Edward John Trelawny

#10. Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.

Kristen Crockett

#11. In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

Edward John Trelawny

#12. The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.

John D. Caputo

#13. In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.

Edward John Trelawny

#14. You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Henny Youngman

#15. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

#16. Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Francis Parker Yockey