Quotes About Long John Silver

#1. Religion is a solace to many people and it is even conceivable that some religion, somewhere, really is Ultimate Truth. But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. You may lay to that.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

#5. Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Leon Trotsky

#6. Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits ... Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#7. I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation,

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#9. We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

Alfie Kohn

#10. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Peter Bart

#11. There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

Chic Murray

#14. The only other car in the lot was a silver pickup. Full-size. Well worn. Long. The windows gray with dried dirt. She had seen it many times. It belonged to John Peters (you know, the farmer?).

Joseph Fink