Procrustes Quotes

#1. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort

Ulf Wolf

#2. Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Edith Head

#3. It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it.

James S.A. Corey

#4. If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. People think I was born in top hat and tails.

Fred Astaire

#6. Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind ... the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

Phil Crane

#7. Procrustes was an editor.

Robin Skelton

#8. There are remedies for all things but death.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. I have to humble myself.

Chad Johnson

#10. With strength you need two stones to kill two birds; with faith you only need one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Laura E. Richards

#12. From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it!

Jamie Ford

#13. I have seen the future! Go back!

Ashleigh Brilliant

#14. But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness he said, lay in working

George Orwell

#15. Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.

Ken Andersen

#16. Life is like an old-time rail journey
delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#17. Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

George Lucas