Greengrocer Bloomfield Quotes

#1. Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.

Richard Thompson

#2. The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

James K. Morrow

#3. Fructose, and fructose is uniquely fattening as carbohydrates go.

Gary Taubes

#4. Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#5. Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Nigel Farage

#6. True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore De Balzac

#7. I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

Bonnie Langford

#8. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves

Victoria Magazine

#9. Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Zig Ziglar