Cotgrave Quotes

Fools are wise until they speak. ~ Randle Cotgrave

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. ~ Randle Cotgrave

And what is sin?' said Cotgrave.
'I think I must reply to your question by another. What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the pebble that you noticed at night had shot out stony blossoms in the morning?
'Well, these examples may give you some notion of what sin really is. ~ Arthur Machen

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one. ~ Walter Cronkite

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare. ~ Christina Stead

Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida - and he recovered. And the reason the medical community has such a hard time with this is because we are treating and healing a vaccine injury ... this is truly a revolution. ~ Jenny McCarthy

After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done ... to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism. ~ Robert Koch

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations. ~ Samuel Smiles

From the practice of wise men. - To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301 ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no commandments against love," he said. ~ Nicola Griffith

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing. ~ Gerry Mulligan

The consequences of our foolish decisions are always made clearer when we look backward on the path we've traveled. ~ Connilyn Cossette

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery. ~ Dustin Cruz

And all their love was thinned with money. ~ John Steinbeck

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get. ~ Phil Jackson