Quotes About Shrove Tuesday

#1. I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

Robert Hunter

#2. It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.

Robert Rankin

#3. Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Martin Gardner

#4. I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

Scott Turow

#5. Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside
Do you still think about me?

Jimi Hendrix

#6. Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women. As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.

Zainab Salbi

#7. Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.

Kaoru Kurimoto

#9. Milo and I have this drinking game about Beth: every time she annoys me, we drink.
She annoys me alot.

Courtney Summers

#10. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell

#12. Fresh October brings the pheasant, The to gather nuts is pleasant.

Sara Coleridge