Puddington Stone Quotes

#1. The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#2. Tranquillity is courage in repose.

Inazo Nitobe

#3. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

William Shakespeare

#4. I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

B.B. King

#5. I don't want to be one of those guys, but Snape DOES kill Dumbledore.

Zach Braff

#6. One day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

E. E. Cummings

#7. Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

John Cage

#8. If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Fannie Flagg

#9. Poets are damned ... but see with the eyes of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

#10. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11. 1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

Kristen Schaal

#12. If I were you,
And you were I,
I would kill myself,
But you would die!

Bruce Jennings

#13. Beavers give a dam

Victor J. Garcia

#14. You don't have to get out. I know how to let myself in," she said.
"I'll get you at the door and walk you to it when I return you. It's part of my job, woman," he said.
Her temper flared. "Don't you ever call me woman. I'm not backwoods white trash. I have a name and don't you forget it.

Carolyn Brown

#15. Civilized life exacts its toll.

Ivy Compton-Burnett