David P Forsyth > David P's Quotes

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”
― Robert Frost

“What brings you to our gorgeous, God-given paradise, our Eden of monsters and half-men?”
― Nathan Yocum, The Zona

“I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.”
― Mary Shelly, The Last Man

“I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. I was not equipped for it either by native gifts or training. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game--the masses." - Mark Twain, a Biography”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
― Adolf Hitler