Top 25 Pottage Quotes
#1. I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a mess of religious pottage.
Michael Ruse
#2. This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue's wrangle,
the world's pottage, the rat's star.
Anne Sexton
#3. Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.
Neal A. Maxwell
#4. Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.
Octavia E. Butler
#5. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him ... As for the virtuous poor ... they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.
Oscar Wilde
#6. The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.
Karl Marx
#7. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#8. It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.
Jim Thompson
#9. Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
Sheri L. Dew
#10. One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
Tobias Smollett
#11. As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing - although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.
Octavia E. Butler
#12. Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
John Gay
#13. Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Plutarch
#14. My thanks, m'lady." He reached for the bowl and sniffed the pottage, followed by a cringe.
She bit her fingernail. "Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm not much of a cook, either."
"Yer scones are right delicious." He took a bite. "Mm. This is no' near as bad as the last batch.
Amy Jarecki
#15. I know I need to stay away from you, Avery. All I want is one kiss. I've got to taste you.
Nikki Lynn Barrett
#16. Do you know what forever love is? Pearl taught me. It's when you love somebody so much that no matter what happens that'll never change. Like even if you're gone. It's still the same. Even if you die. You die, but not the love. Not forever love. Know what I mean?
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#17. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.
Robin Jones Gunn
#18. Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
Naomi Campbell
#19. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
Alice Sebold
#20. Why, oh why was I standing entranced when I should have been releasing my inner she wolf on his arse?
Lilly James
#21. If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.
Cheryl Strayed
#23. That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.
Paul Kearney
#24. Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Matt Groening
