Vermute Doce Quotes

#1. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
[in contrast] Cricket had rules: one was not allowed to stamp on the head of another player and pass it off as enthusiasm.

Natasha Pulley

#2. I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. "God do this, God don't do that." I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Jean Plaidy

#3. Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Edgar Schein

#4. If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Webb Chiles

#5. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.

Washington Irving

#6. Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

Anna Paquin

#8. I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.

Ellen Greene

#9. [S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Samuel Rutherford

#10. It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole ... 'Talent is Work'

Galina Ulanova