Towns Quotes - Page 20

• Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.

  Max Perutz

  Science, Artist, Men

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• Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.

  Eliza Leslie

  Children, Believe, Food

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• The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, History, Form

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• The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Men, Knowing

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• There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them;
  Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

  Will Carleton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, People

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Love Is, Beloved

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.446, GENERAL PRESS

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• There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

  Joe Strummer

  Music, Running, World

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Nature, Loss

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• Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

  H. G. Wells

  Religious, Men, People

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10332, Delphi Classics

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• In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Truth, Games, Absence

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• My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

  George Gobel

  Uncles, Work, Drinking

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• I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Academic Excellence, Discipline

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• Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Home

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• Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Country

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

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• It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Grandmother, Games

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• In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

  Armistead Maupin

  Beautiful, Breakup, Love You

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• He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Strong

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
  A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
  That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
  That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
  Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
  He cultivates.

  William Cowper

  Home, Garden, Grace

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, 4th Of July, Pigs

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

  O. Henry

  Appreciation, Home, Old Glory

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

  Alexander Pope

  Bible, War, Party

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• A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Golf, Purpose, Idiot

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• There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

  Jessica Biel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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