South Philly Sayings

#1. I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

Larry The Cable Guy

#2. Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

Aesop

#3. It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Ramana Maharshi

#4. Greater people do not heed the faults of smaller people, and,
in their greatness and mercifulness, accept their apologies.

Anonymous

#5. Human science is an uncertain guess.

Matt Prior

#6. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Melrose Diner, South Philly, tomorrow at nine A.M.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

Eric Johnston

#9. In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

Karen Abbott

#10. The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

Lysander Spooner

#11. I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.

Johanna Braddy

#12. I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

Jim Croce

#13. If you wish to be a good Leader, have a all round personality. Read psychology, philosophy,history,anthropology, sociology, finest works, scriptures and even Law.

Moutasem Algharati

#14. A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

Jill Scott

#15. Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson