Preservative Quotes

#1. Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

Dwight L. Moody

#2. The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.

Marisha Pessl

#3. Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

Andrew Marvell

#4. Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...

Margaret Oliphant

#5. The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Francis Bacon

#6. Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.

Rory Freedman

#7. Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.

Richard Mant

#8. The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

John Peter Zenger

#9. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

#10. To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.

Sally Schneider

#12. First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Note to clients, quicklime is a preservative, not a corrosive.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. [Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

Rose Macaulay

#15. Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Samuel Johnson

#16. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself ... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Jessye Norman

#17. I had to get their first.

Dan Rix

#18. I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Charlie Sheen

#19. I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

David Powers

#20. He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

A. Ashley Straker

#21. I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.

Paul Auster

#22. By your hand the people shall live

Andy Andrews

#23. He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?

Marian Keyes

#24. In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Malcolm Muggeridge