Talbot Mundy Quotes

#1. I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. When my time comes, I would like to know that I have repaid my debt to those who have made a difference in my life. And to be at peace knowing that I stopped the cancer from spreading to those I love.

Dave Pelzer

#3. Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#4. Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.

Bo Burnham

#5. Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big ones.For I tell you, that secrets are not kept by being secretive;

Talbot Mundy

#6. If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh

Talbot Mundy

#7. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

Talbot Mundy

#8. Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

Tim Vine

#9. Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.

Talbot Mundy

#10. Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.

Talbot Mundy

#11. When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Mary Higgins Clark

#12. For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

Thomas More

#13. With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace

in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love.

Sanober Khan

#14. I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#15. If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

Iris Apfel

#16. I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.

Talbot Mundy

#17. For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

Talbot Mundy

#18. But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.

Talbot Mundy

#19. Fear is an ugly weapon, sahib, whose hilt is more dangerous than its blade.

Talbot Mundy

#20. What is beyond the darkness? Some say chaos and darker night. I say sunrise.

Talbot Mundy