Pettifogging Quotes

#1. The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#3. This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were - and are - far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.)

Connie Willis

#4. It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, Oh, right! Kissing! Quickly! Quickly! More movement! Deploy tongue!

Maureen Johnson

#5. So ... do I have to go punch Stone in the face, or just burp in Richardson's class?" Caleb
"Do what?" Nick
"I'm trying to gauge how much detention I need to earn to match yours. Therefore I'm asking the severity of my grievance and who to assault for it." Caleb

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Actors are athletes of the heart.

Antonin Artaud

#7. Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

Lemony Snicket

#8. That's all life is, isn't it? Just continuing, going on.

Elizabeth George

#9. Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Tim Finn

#10. At least some of the latter could testify that their routes were blocked by armed Americans with an attitude to non-Americans that would be familiar to anyone passing through a major US international airport today.

Richard Doherty

#11. When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

Havelock Ellis

#13. I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

April Bloomfield

#14. Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should?

Ted Dekker