Friday Night Shenanigans Quotes

#1. Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.

Robert Steven Gottfried

#2. As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

#3. A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.
[Life magazine, December 10, 1965]

Rex Stout

#4. It's okay to be a bit chubby, but I want you to be healthy. Not just for what we do, but because I want you to be around for a long time.

Robert Dahlen

#5. Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison

#6. To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi

Pat Williams

#7. If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child.

Revathi Sankaran

#8. Opera and church recitals are options, of course, but they require some initiative and arrangement: tickets and schedules and so forth. I am not good at that; it's rather like fixing a three-course meal for yourself - perhaps even lonelier.

Joseph Brodsky