Shneur Malinas Quotes

#1. So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.

Robert Frost

#2. The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.

Ali Smith

#3. Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Plato

#4. Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

David Ogilvy

#5. How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

#6. Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Alexander Pope

#7. War is like a fire, Agnes. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

T.H. White

#8. To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits ... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

Abraham Maslow

#9. The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger ...

Sarah Waters

#10. Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

William Cowper

#11. Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth