Gateleg Table Quotes

#1. Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ballgame on TV. I think he rooted for the Yankees.

Daniel Keyes

#2. I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

Ewan McGregor

#4. Philosophy does not have to be only an intellectual exercise but can be used to understand everyday living.

Skye Cleary

#5. If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

Fannie Flagg

#6. Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

Benjamin Franklin

#8. To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Jim Wallis

#9. It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Gloria Steinem

#10. People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Ross Kemp

#11. The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#12. The thing you contend for to be reason," Burke had said, "show it to be common sense, show it to be the means of attaining some useful end, and then I am content to allow it what dignity you please.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Richard Rorty

#14. Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

George Herbert