Michael > Michael's Quotes

“Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
― Mark Twain

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
― Rebecca McClanahan

“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Eine Zeit lang standen Priester und Atheist nebeneinander und sahen stumm zum Kreuz hoch.”
― Andreas Brandhorst

“Ever killed anyone with a spoon?" she asked him.
"Uhhh..."
"Me neither, but I'm thinking of trying.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring