Roast Mutton Quotes

#1. Jack Stepney had once said of Miss Van Osburgh that she was as reliable as roast mutton. His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.

Edith Wharton

#2. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Paul Ryan

#5. I haven't figured out a rainbow yet, They come so quickly and leave so soon. I never have enough time to capture them. Just a bit of blue here or purple there. And then they fade away again. Back into the air.

Suzanne Collins

#6. Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

John Webster

#7. To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.

Lao-Tzu

#8. This is still the age of grace. God's offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: "Now is the accepted time" [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].

Billy Graham

#9. I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

Soledad O'Brien

#10. You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Cornelia Funke

#11. The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Steven Johnson

#12. The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.

Peter Straub

#13. But I want to show Hazel Grace the basement," Augustus said. "Just Hazel," I said. "So show Just Hazel the basement," said his dad.

John Green

#14. Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch

Patrick O'Brian