Fattened Quotes

#1. The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

Ramana Maharshi

#2. If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense.

H.L. Mencken

#3. In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.

Tristram Stuart

#4. Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

Alain Ducasse

#6. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Aristophanes

#7. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Solomon

#8. People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.

Yu Hua

#9. From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Emma Goldman

#10. The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

Tertullian

#11. Porter it was that fattened people in my own fami ly, and it would be a hard thing not to drink porter with every other decent man, and maybe stand fi l ling your pipe with your back to the counte r , and maybe talk of the time you were in j a i l in England

Anonymous

#12. Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Andrew Dost

#13. There are some politicians who promise something for everyone. If their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner, fattened at public expense.

H.L. Mencken

#14. Well, we all have our sharks, I'm sure, and there's only one way to get them off before they hack and nibble you to death - stop feeding them; they will find other bait; you fattened them the last dozen times around - now set them out to sea.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden

#16. Animals
fattened for your for your arena suffered less
than you in dying-yours the lawlessness
of something simple that has lost its law,
my namesake, and the last Caligula.

Robert Lowell

#17. You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

Gina Carano

#18. I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.

Matt Dillon

#19. Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

Toni Morrison

#20. We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [ ... ]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Eustace Mullins

#21. Wales: The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it!

Dylan Thomas

#22. Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Edith Stein

#23. It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Julian Baggini

#24. Love is all you need.

Paul McCartney

#25. I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Olivia Colman

#26. This," said Angel to Louis, "is the best fucking idea anyone ever had since, like, Columbus bought a boat." The two men, along with Parker, were sitting

John Connolly

#27. He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Eric Metaxas

#28. Kartik feels like a country I want to travel - vast, dangerous, and unknown.

Libba Bray

#29. There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white ... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.

Bram Stoker

#30. I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

Oliver Stone

#31. I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

Jalal Talabani