ZUMAWAS
Other people may judge you incorrectly, but they judge you nevertheless. They may not have all the facts at hand, but this doesn't stop them. Their judgement causes all the problems in life, especially if you live in close proximity to them.
Zumawas
- Observation
You know, if you're the kind of high-powered, tension filled athlete who needs to rush through the set as fast as humanly possible, playing through the group ahead of you, maybe miniature golf isn't really your game.
Shakespeare
- As You Like It, Act V, scene lV
O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees: the first, "the retort courteous"; the second, "the quip modest"; the third,"the reply churlish"; the fourth, "the reproof valiant"; the fifth, "the countercheque quarrelsome"; the sixth, "the lie with circumstance"; the seventh, "the lie direct."
Walt Disney
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
S.I. Hayakawa
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read... It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Stephen Vincent Benet
- American Names
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, the plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat . Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
William James
- Memories and Studies
Man, biologically considered... is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
MacKinlay Cantor
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
I was a dog at Gettysburg. I trotted near the train and nosed among the officers who kicked me to my pain. A man came by... I could not see. I howled. The light was dim, but when I brushed against his legs, I liked the smell of him.
Walt Whitman
- To Think of Time
I swear I think now that everything without exception has an eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground! The weeds of the sea have! The animals!
Milton
- On His Blindness
God doth not need either man's work or his own gifts; who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his state is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed and post o'er land and ocean without rest; they also serve who only stand and wait.
Tennyson
- Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! And may there be no mourning of the bar when I put out to sea. I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar.
Winston Churchill
- Civilization
Civilization means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the condition of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.
Herman Melville
- Moby Dick
To produce a mighty book, you must pick a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Milton
- Sonnet: On His Blindness
When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent, which is death to hide, lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning; chide...
Omar Khayyam
- Rubaiyat (FitzGerald trans.)
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.
