Top 17 Procrustes Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Procrustes

#1. 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

#2. Procrustes was an editor.

Robin Skelton

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

George Lucas

#4. 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

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

Ken Andersen

#6. 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

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

#8. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I have to humble myself.

Chad Johnson

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

Thomas Carlyle

#12. 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